: Access Forbidden! Apache Windows XP This is a great tutorial on how to server websites other than in default htdocs folder in XAMPP. It worked for me the other day but then I had to reinstall

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This is a great tutorial on how to server websites other than in default htdocs folder in XAMPP. It worked for me the other day but then I had to reinstall XAMPP (1.7.7 was 1.7.6) and now I am getting this error when I try the same.

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


I have put this in http.conf file according to the above link

<Directory "C:/Blog">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Alias /blog/ "C:/Blog" # this goes inside the alias module


When I type the URL, I get these messages:

localhost/blog #gets error, object not found
localhost/blog/ #Access Foribdden
localhost/blog2/ #this folder does not exist and it rightly says object not found


Note that I have added everyone user to blog folder but still have the problem. I have added a plain HTML file as well but still have the same problem. I cannot find a .htaccess file.

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