Xampp - Ubuntu - cant access my project in lampp/htdocs

Question

I have installed xampp to Ubuntu 12.04. I have put my project in the folder /opt/lampp/htdocs/project_is_here

When I type in the browser localhost/soap/php (soap/php is in my htdocs folder) which is where index.php I get the following error:

Access forbidden!  You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.  If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.  Error 403  localhost Apache/2.4.3 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.1c PHP/5.4.7 

Any ideas how to fix this? I think this is the right location to put the project, because I tried other places and it said location didnt exist and this error goes away here and I get this.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

1. In the linux terminal navigate to your lampp directory.

    cd /opt/lampp 

2. In the command line type:

    sudo chmod 777 -R htdocs 

The problem should be solved.

What you just did was:

Navigate to the directory containing the protected directory. Your problem was that it was a folder that was access protected by your system. When you commanded chmod 777 -R htdocs, you set the permissions for every user on your computer to "read/write/execute - allowed".

Each number from 0-7 sets a permission level. Here's a link explaining that in more detail.

http://www.pageresource.com/cgirec/chmod.htm

The '-R' makes the command recursive and will affect htdocs as well as all subdirectories of htdocs and all subdirectories of those etc.

Answer 2

i've experinced the same problem and this is my solution :

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1.in the terminal

cd /opt/lampp/etc/ 

2. if you have sublime text installed simply just type :

subl httpd.conf

3.when the configuration file opened in sublime you have to check if these three blocks are as follow :

<Directory />     AllowOverride All     Require all granted </Directory> 

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<Directory "/opt/lampp/htdocs">  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes  AllowOverride All  Require all granted </Directory> 

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User your username Group your group name 

for example :

my username is mhmd also my group name is mhmd

User mhmd Group mhmd 

and i hope it will help you ..