Topic: 403 Forbidden when trying to connect to http://myserver/

[sandworm]

Have Wamp set up on a windows box and all is working fine when connecting to http://localhost/ but when I try and connect to http://myserver/ - which I've set with:

[glsmith]

First thought would be DocumentRoot for myserver is different than that of localhost. For each docroot there must be a corresponding <Directory> container with few exceptions.

If Docroots are same then the <Directory> stuff for localhost is most likely inside a <VirtualHost> at which point that <Directory> stuff is connected only to localhost, options then are either duplicate it in the myserver VHost or simply pull it out from inside the localhost's vhost and put anywhere outside of all VHosts becoming server wide at that point.

[sandworm]

Thanks glsmith.

The doc root and directory are both c:/webserver/www/public_html/

You mention Vhosts I havent defined any, should I?

Thanks

[glsmith]

Hmmmmm ok,

Are both, so, you have two server names in the open?

ServerName localhost:80
ServerName myserver:80

It honestly should not matter, even tho one will be ignored, or worse, Apache mail fail to start. ServerAlias is what you would want to use when using multile names into a single document root, especially in the server wide section.

But for now, what is in the error log about this 403
Client denied for what reason?

[sandworm]

Thanks again.

No just the one server name

ServerName myserver:80

Thats what is confusing me. I assumed (and am sure I've set this up ok when using apache in the past) that changing the default of ServerName localhost:80 in httpd.conf to SeverName aName:80 would allow me to have intranet type connections to http://aName.

Anyway I get this in the apache_error.log

[glsmith]

put this at the bottom of httpd.conf, restart and give it a try

<Directory "C:/webserver/www/public_html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Or better, below the ServerName & Docroot you changed the are two of these Directory containers, one with just a / and the second should show the old docroot, if it does, just change it. Make sure the Options Indexes is there OR make sure there is an index.html file there.

Every Docroot needs a matching Directory container to give access to the location on the filesystem. Sorry I missed this post of yours yesterday.

[sandworm]

Thanks again. Tried both of the above suggestions with no luck. So I uninstalled Wamp and have reinstalled Apache, php and mysql manually. Now everything is working fine (so far:)!)

Again many thanks for you help.

[glsmith]

Good ... besides .. Wamp is old (2.2.11) and manually installing them isn't that hard.