Using XAMPP, Error 403 Access Forbidden

Question

Update (FOUND A WORKING SOLUTION): http://maff.ailoo.net/2008/07/set-up-multiple-virtual-hosts-on-xampp-for-windows/

 <VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
 DocumentRoot D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public
 ServerName testproject

 <Directory "D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

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I had tried re-installing, and no luck. I am using XAMPP 1.7.3, Windows 7 64bit.

Followed instructions from: http://superuser.com/questions/68857/403-forbidden-error-when-trying-to-view-localhost-on-apache/69092#69092

[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Server built: Nov 11 2009 14:29:03
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Parent: Created child process 4960
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:58 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:58 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Child process is running
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting 150 worker threads.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sat Oct 16 16:10:30 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: C:/projects/test/
[Sat Oct 16 16:10:36 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: C:/projects/test/favicon.ico

vhosts file:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ##ServerAdmin postmaster@dummy-host2.localhost
    DocumentRoot "C:/projects/test"
    ServerName test
    ##ServerAlias www.dummy-host2.localhost
    ##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-error.log"
    ##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-access.log" combined
</VirtualHost>

hosts:

# Virtual host
127.0.0.1    test

Answer 1

(FOUND A WORKING SOLUTION): http://maff.ailoo.net/2008/07/set-up-multiple-virtual-hosts-on-xampp-for-windows/

 <VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
 DocumentRoot D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public
 ServerName testproject

 <Directory "D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

This worked for me with Ubuntu 11.10 and version 1.7.7 in httpd.conf i've added the # in the directory to have it work with vhosts. My vhosts were located outside of the root folder...

And change user and group from nobody to your username:

User nobody
Group nobody
</IfModule>
</IfModule>

#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
# Options FollowSymLinks
# AllowOverride None
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
</Directory>

Answer 3

In the apache folder, go to extra and then open file httpd-xamp.conf.

Edit the following lines:

<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.0/8 
    ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

Change the above configuration like below:

<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from all
    ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

Now restart XAMPP, it will work.