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.

1st Edit:

What you just did was:

You navigated 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, what you did was set the permissions for everyone on your computer to read/write/execute - allowed.

Now, you know what each digit means. It says who the number is about. Now each number from 0-7 sets a permission level. I will simply provide you a link for that.

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

I forgot to add why there is a '-R'. '-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> 

================================

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

================================

 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 ..

Answer 3

One possible reason is that you are using Virtual host.

In that case, use this command in your terminal

sudo nano /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Then add this block of code at the end of the file

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/htdocs"
    ServerName localhost
    ServerAlias localhost
    ErrorLog "logs/localhost-error_log"
    CustomLog "logs/localhost-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

Finally restart XAMPP

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart

Answer 4

I had given all the permission , still got the error message. Go to -> /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf set : DocumentRoot to /opt/lampp/htdocs

All solved for me. Change the "DocumentRoot" to whichever folder your project is.

Answer 5

it'll useful,

  0 -> No permission
  1 -> Execute
  2 -> Write
  3 -> write and execute(2 +1)
  4 -> Read
  5 -> Read and execute
  6 -> Read and write
  7 -> read,write and execute
  Then What about three decimal 

  1st-digit Owner

  2nd- digit Group

  3rd- digit Others

test@test:~$ sudo chown -R test:test /var/www/html/folder

test@test:~$ sudo chmod -R 666  /var/www/html/folder //-system user 

test@test:~$ sudo chmod -R 777  /var/www/html/folder // -browser with full

What is this 777 ? --> 7: you, 7: us, 7: them.