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I'm using XAMPP on my mac to power some virtual hosts for offline web dev.

Every file I try to access says the same error:

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 seo-reports.local Sun Sep 4 19:30:10 2011 Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l PHP/5.3.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1

The error log reports the following for every file:

[Sun Sep 04 19:26:43 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /apply.php denied 
[Sun Sep 04 19:28:57 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /img.png denied
[Sun Sep 04 19:29:50 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied 
[Sun Sep 04 19:30:10 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied

Please help!

More info can be provided if necessary.

Edit: httpd-vhosts.conf:

# 
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
# 
NameVirtualHost *:80



# localhost [must be included as the default named server]
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs"
    <Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes execCGI
        AllowOverride None
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow From All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

# seo-reports.local
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName seo-reports.local
        ServerAdmin alexandercoady@me.com
    DocumentRoot "/Users/Alex/Documents/Software Development/Web/SEO Reports"
    <Directory "/Users/Alex/Documents/Software Development/Web/SEO Reports">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes execCGI
        AllowOverride None
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow From All
    </Directory>
        ErrorLog "/Users/Alex/Documents/Software Development/Web/SEO Reports/error.log"
        CustomLog "/Users/Alex/Documents/Software Development/Web/SEO Reports/access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
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Well, how about adding the virtual host file in question as well as .htaccess files if there are any. Oh, and maybe check the permissions on the folders and all subfolders. – Boo Sep 4 '11 at 19:30
@Boo I've added the virtual hosts file contents, and all the permissions for files and folders are in order.. – Alex coady Sep 4 '11 at 19:42
Are you remembering to restart Apache after making configuration changes? Did you remember to uncomment the httpd.conf directive to include the vhosts config file? – Miles Erickson Sep 5 '11 at 17:09
Also, why are you using XAMPP on a Mac? MacOS X already includes Apache. – Miles Erickson Sep 5 '11 at 17:09
PHP, MySQL.. Seems like the thing to do? I'm no server expert, I'm a decent programmer so when it comes to the servers I just want them to work and never need to worry about them – Alex coady Sep 7 '11 at 10:45
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Make them follow this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName domain.com
    DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs"
    <Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes execCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow From All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Try the AllowOverride All (security flaw, but this is for troubleshooting).

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