Linux – Setting htdocs folder in Dropbox folder – Access Forbidden – Linux

apache-2.2dropboxhttp-status-code-403linuxxampp

i use Linux and i did the following procedures to move htdocs files in Dropbox :

  1. mkdir ~/Dropbox/www/
  2. ln -s ~/Dropbox/www/ /opt/lampp/htdocs/

and when i try to access this folder i get

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

localhost Fri May 13 17:32:37 2011
Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2
mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/1.0.0c
PHP/5.3.5 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1
mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1

Thanks

Best Answer

What are the permissions in the folder ? Does lampp user and group can acess the folder?

Check the permissions in the folder

Beside, apache is configured not to access folders outside the documentroot (tipical /var/www/html or something like it)

You need to edit httpd.conf (or whatever is the configuration file for lampp) and add a few lines:

<Directory "/home/<user>/Dropbox/www">
        Options -Indexes FollowSymlinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>

Save and restart lampp.

This should work.

Cheers

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