HTTP 403 Forbidden

Question

I am setting up a site for testing using apache 2.2. I editted the host, vhost.conf and httpd.conf files to include the name of my website and the directory of the files but everytime I try to open it on IE 8, it says HTTP 403 Forbidden. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

Very difficult to say without seeing more of your configuration files, but to start: Are you sure your web server has access to the directory you're using (e.g., is it a directory under your server root -- or does it otherwise have the correct permissions)?

Answer 2

Did you set the permissions on the files correctly? I have run into the same kind of problem when the actual directory holding the files doesn't have the permissions set correctly.