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 403I 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 moduleWhen I type the URL, I get these messages:localhost/blog       #gets error, object not foundlocalhost/blog/      #Access Foribddenlocalhost/blog2/     #this folder does not exist and it rightly says object not foundNote 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.
Access Forbidden! Apache Windows XP
htaccess;xampp;403 forbidden
I don't know how it got fixed, but I played with this lineAlias /blog/ C:/Blogchanged it to C:/Blog/ which did not work, and then changed it back to what it is above and it starting working. It took at least half an hour of my time.MoreI began the same error (Access forbidden) again after I changed the port to 8080. This time the fix was changing the above line toAlias /blog/ C:/Blog/This is very unclear how this one line can create such error.