Topic: error 403 acces forbidden on windows xp

[Duke555]

how are you?
i wanted to ask you the following question.
i have just tried to make the following changes in httpd.conf file:
1)#<Directory "C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs">
<Directory "C:/Study/PHP">
2) #DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs"
DocumentRoot "C:/Study/PHP"

I wanted to work on my files in another directory. I keep getting the error
message below.
would you be able to tell me how to get it to work? i mean it is not Linux where chmod 777 would do the trick...
thank you


Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either
read-protected or not readable by the server.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 403

[paranid]

Hello,

reason should be described in your error.log file.

Try to look for Deny from / Allow from directives in httpd.conf or .htaccess file in C:/Study/PHP folder.

Or you do not have directive Options Indexes enabled for C:/Study/PHP folder (try to access real file eg: C:/Study/PHP/somefile.html -> http://localhost/somefile.html) or you are using authorization for this folder (but it would ask you for password first).