On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Ian Cant <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I am experiencing problems installing Apache 2.2.11 including open-ssl > onto my Windows Vista Ultimate (no service pack) machine. I have followed > tutorials I have seen online about running the installer from command prompt > (as Adminstrator) and installing Apache outside of the Program Files > directories. I have installed into C:\apache. I wish to change the > DocumentRoot from the standard htdocs (which does work) and move it to > c:\webroot. However when I do this I am returned a 403 Forbidden error. I > have tried to copy and paste the existing htdocs directory (from c:\apache > too c:\webroot\htdocs) amending the htpd.conf file as applicable and still > experience the same difficulty. I am a new user of Vista so not 100% on > everything as yet. Done some searches online and have'nt been able to pick > up anything. Thanks In Advance. Ian
What does your error.log say when you hit the 403? Did you update all the references to c:\apache\htdocs, or just the DocumentRoot line? You need to do the former. -- Eric Covener [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] " from the digest: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
