How to check and change permissions of files and folders for web server in windows?

Question

I have installed Apache server on Windows 7. When I try to access the server by its IP address I get in Chrome:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

In IE I get:

The website declined to show this webpage
HTTP 403 Most likely causes:
•This website requires you to log in.

I want to emphasize that I get another message if I type arbitrary IP. So, the server is working it just does not want to show me files.

I checked already ports (port 80 is opened, I think). And in my "httpd.conf" file I have "Listen 80".

At the moment I think that the problem is in permissions to files and folders. Can anybody tell me how can I check the permissions of files and folders, how can I change them (DOS analog of Linux's chmode), and which permission I need to set (so that people from outside can see my files but they cannot do something bad).

Thank you in advance for any help.

Answer 1

This could be permissions-related, but in most cases, I'd say it's caused by not having a index.html file at your DocumentRoot, and not having Options Indexes enabled. (What is your DocumentRoot, anyhow?) From Wikipedia:

[403] is returned by the Apache web server when directory listings have been disabled.

Answer 2

The command you want is cacls - run it in command prompt and check the options. You could right click the folder > properties, and change the permissions in here too.