Question

I’ve set up Pow and Apache the way they suggest in this tutorial. My httpd-vhosts.conf contains the following entry.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /Users/michael/Dropbox/Development/test
    ServerName test.dev

    <Directory "/Users/michael/Dropbox/Development/test">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I’m still getting a 403 Forbidden when I got to http://test.dev/.

Error log says:

[Wed Nov 21 19:24:21 2012] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: /Users/michael/Dropbox/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
[Wed Nov 21 19:24:43 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied

Has anyone else had this problem?

Answer 1

The issue was the permissions. It finally worked when I chmod’d the full path to the directory I was working in to 755.

~/, ~/Dropbox, ~/Development…etc.

I’ll bet there’s a nicer way to do this, but it’s working. So, there you go.