I've installed xampp in two different pc and in both of them it gives me the same error running windows10 (both with it). Apache server runs correctly, the ports are dedicated to httpd as it's supposed but when I try to access the folder of my website project to test the html files, google chrome, firefox and explorer show me a message saying: "Error 403 - access forbidden because you don't have the right permissions". I've tried everything that is in the other similar questions here and already gave permisions to all users in my folders, even to the whole drive c:. I also modified the txt files inside the folder /apache/conf/ and didn't work. I've seen that in some questions regarding the same matter, the file httpd.conf is a little bit different with parts that I can't see in mine. Thank you so much.
Finally, I solved the problem learning some more. I post it here in case someone is starting with it like me. The point is that when you install xampp, the program has a default folder where it let's you put your projects, it's called "htdocs". So that you can work only with project folders that you create inside this "htdocs" folder. If you try to create a new folder on c:/ for example, the program will not let you access beacuase of security (everybody could access all the folders on your computer, entering your server). I hope this to be of some help for someone else. Thank you, and sorry for the newbie question.
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I have a Sites folder inside my user directory, where I put all of my apache project files, the weird thing is that I can access all of my folders, except for the main route "localhost/" which, of course, has no index.html document on it, its just folders, but I know I should be able to see something like this:
Index of Sites.
.project1
.project2
.project3
Instead, I get this
403 Forbidden
On my new job I was assigned to this Mac PC that belonged to someone else, and this person of course needed the same tools that I have been asked to download, they told me to uninstall all of that software and install it all over again (which I did), mainly the software that I'm using is an apache server with homebrew.
I have always had this problem, but I ignored it because I thought, well, do I really need to see an "index of Sites" page when I can manually change to whatever folder I want? my answer was, not really.
But yesterday they asked me to download webpack and nodeJs, and I did, so I made a dummy project with webpack that contained all of the js and config files, but it didn't have an index.html file. And surprise surprise, I got a 403 forbidden error when entering the dummy folder in localhost.
So I'm guessing that my apache for some reason is giving me 403 errors when I do not have an index.html file or an index.php file to show.
Have you ever experienced something like this?
I had a shared hosting package with 1and1 and I just moved over to their VPS hosting that uses Plesk. I already had the domains moved over the VPS server and I already uploaded all of the files via FTP.
I talked to an agent yesterday and he helped me setup the main page on the website so that it would go to the appropriate root directory. The main website is working properly whenever I go the main domain name, however, whenever I go to website.com/blank or website.com/stuff, I receive a 404 error.
The strange part is that I see the files in Plesk file manager, I just don't know why they are not displaying properly. I didn't change anything in the migration process.
I did not change the code on any of the pages and I have contacted their customer support team a number of times, but they have been unable to resolve the issue.
Can anyone tell me what I should do to make sure that the files are associated with the correct pages?
Have you checked the permission for the files and folder under your domain, this seems to be an issue with either your ownership or permission of the files. And if thats not the problem it could even be your .htaccess file.. make sure you have transferred your .htaccess file as well from old shared hosting to new VPS.
I've been strugling for a couple of days with this problem, but can't seem to fix it, I think I'm almost there.... but... not quite :(
This is where I am at.
I'm on a headless debian server, running virtualmin / webmin for creating my domains / users etc. I don't know if this will mess things up, but I'm happy to modify the config files manually (via webmin or via ssh/vim).
I am attempting to run fossil as a cgi service over apache.
its an internal site, named as homeserver.net I can reach the default pages just fine, and add in and create links etc as I want to.
Please note that the solution to my problem is at the end of the question.
so the files are located on disk at, which tallys up with my apache document root
/home/homeserver/www
I would like to run fossil to have both the internal site, and later on and dev work that I practice on in separate files. So I created a new directory for these repositories.
/home/homeserver/repos/web/site.fossil
/home/homeserver/repos/dev/ [no repository yet!]
reading the instructions on the fossil page I have inserted a short cgi file called 'fos_repo.cgi' that reads as.
#!/usr/bin/fossil
directory: /home/homeserver/repos
notfound: http://www.homeserver.net/site404.htm
when I open the link to
www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/fos_repo.cgi
I get redirected to the 404 page that I have written. So the script is clearly being read and working.
From reading the fossil pages I understand that I should be able to use the following link to open/access the repo.
www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/repos/web/site
I'm not sure why this isn't working...
so far I have tried the following.
I opened the repository from the cli, and had the server run in the background
fossil server site.fossil &
I though maybee the file should have been inside the main repo directory, not inside a sub directory, so I moved it... it now lives in
/home/homeserver/repos/site.fossil
I tried creating an alias to the file in apache
Alias /home/homeserver/repos/web/site.fossil /home/homeserver/www/repos
When I browse to
www.homeserver.net/repos/site
I get nothing, but going to
www.homeserver.net/repos/site.fossil
will attempt to downloaded the file (which is a binary)
so I think I'm getting somewhere, but I'm not sure what I'm missing.
I've used fossil before, but I ran it as a local server, and started it up as and when I needed it.
I'm running it like this so as I can eventually push the site out to a live VPS (maybe even finish up hosting the fossil site on the VPS also).
ps I really liked fossil when I used it before, and loved the whole integrated wiki and bug tracker, and the fact I could simply copy the file to my external drive to do a backup. Personally don't really want to change to something else, but if I have to....
thanks in advance.
David
Edit: trying other options.
So I thought I would try the single repository method shown on the fossil page, so adjusted my cgi script accordingly.
Now when I navitage to : www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/fos_repo.cgi I get the following message returned
SQLITE_CANTOPEN: cannot open file at line 30276 of [f5b5a13f73]
SQLITE_CANTOPEN: os_unix.c:30276: (21) open(/home/homeserver/repos)
however if I ssh to the server an start it manually with
fossil server site.fossil
I can get to the server with www.homeserver.net:8081
So I either have a problem with my SQLite usage in apache or something else wrong. Plesse help
Solution
So for reasons of simplicity I've decided that using a single cgi file for each repo is what I am going to go with.
My initial directory structure was as follows:
/home/homeserver/www
/home/homeserver/www/repos
/home/homeserver/www/repos/web # for web site development
/home/homeserver/www/repos/dev # for other development
I think part of my problem was that I was hoping that having the directory: pont to my repos/ location fossil would find the site.fossil file (located in repos/web) and the dev.fossil file (located in repos/deb).
Obviously this didn't work.
The reason I wanted it too look like this was for separation of the information on my system.
For some reason I had decided that pointing fossil as repos/ would give me a nice fossil style front page and links to my repositories automatically. However After having used the directory: version and getting the following error message
Unable to find or open the project repository
I realised that I was still going to need to write my front page to the repositories, and that my expectation was a little too much.
So I've decided to run with a single cgi file pointing to each repo that i need to make.
Instead of
www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/repos/web/site
try
www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/repos.cgi/index
Reading your ( very long ) question again, I suggest trying
www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/fos_repos.cgi/index
I have looked around a great deal on the Drupal forum and elsewhere but I cannot yet resolve this.
I have had to reinstall a large, fully functional site (Drupal 7.18) onto a new server. This has gone very smoothly. However, I do not seem to be able to set permissions for my sites/default/files directory in a manner that keeps it accessible and safe when browsing using the IMCE file browser.
Usually I set sites/default/files (and subdirectories within it) as 755, with files within these directories as 664. This works well on many other Drupal 7 sites I have built.
HOWEVER in this case, with these permissions I get the message "Unable to get a working directory for the file browser".
Only by setting directory permissions as 777 can I browse the files in these directories using IMCE - and I know that is really bad practice on shared hosting.
Please can someone advise on troubleshooting this? I have spent hours but I am getting nowhere.
I wonder if the ownership of the files and directories themselves is wrong. If they are wrong, can anyone direct me to step-by-step instructions for changing them?
Examining the 'problem' files and directories using FireFTP, I see
that both user and group names are the same as the FTP username that
was given me by my web host.
Looking at another Drupal site that works properly, I see that files
and directories in sites/default/files are set to user 531/group 528.
Thanks in anticipation! I am running D7.18 on PHP 5.2.10 with extensions enabled. Everything else seems to be working very well indeed. However, I am not sure I have the Apache or Linux skills needed to resolve this, or even to ask my hosts the correct questions ...
755 basically means that only the owner of the files can modify them, so you could try changing the directory permissions to 775 so that the owner and group can modify.
If you are using shared hosting I suggest you ask your hosting provider to help as they will have a better understanding of the users and groups on the server.
Cheers
I updated my MAMP to version 2 and ran into a couple of problems. I've always had my projects in a folder /Desktop/Projects and pointed my localhost there. No problem whatsoever, I could see my filelistings etc.
However, after updating, I now get a '403 Forbidden' error, stating that I do not have permission to access '/' on this server.
I'm not sure what I did before to make this work, and I suspect this has something to do with Apache's and/or MAMP's settings? Could someone perhaps give me some pointers? Thanks.
PS: Not sure if this is the right Stackexchange site, but Webmasters didn't have a MAMP tag, so I figured I'd post it here. Thanks a lot.
Guessing you didn't set the Disk Location correctly...
In MAMP, click the HOSTS tab, there you'll see Disk Location.
You can choose the directory here, and click Permissions to make sure things are set correctly.
The path to your web-root should be something like /Users/cabaret/Desktop/Projects