Re: Windows Vista DocumentRoot relocation issue 403 Forbidden

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Ian Cant <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.


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Eric Covener
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