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?

Solution 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.

Solution 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 ..

Solution 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