Craft directory 403 Access Forbidden with XAMPP I've been using xampp for a long time and have never encountered a 403 error. I have many projects in my xampp/htdocs/ folder, none of them have ever had any problems until now. I have the craft files in a /craft folder inside htdocs but any time I try to visit files within this directory I am met with the 403 error. 

I have been searching a solution for hours now, I edited httpd-vhosts.conf with the following but it didn't help:

&lt;Directory "C:/xampp/xampp/craft/"&gt;
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
    Order Deny,Allow
    Allow from all
    Require all granted
&lt;/Directory&gt;


Again, no other folders within my htdocs directory has ever had any 403 errors. Anyone got a clue as to what is causing this and how to solve it?
That’s a good thing - you definitely don’t want to allow direct HTTP traffic to your craft/ folder, as people would be able to access your config settings, license key, and plenty of other sensitive data.

There’s a .htaccess file inside your craft/ folder with Deny from all in it, which is what is responsible for that 403 error you’re getting. Keep it in there!