title: Xampp & Apache: Alias 'access denied'
body: <p>I just installed Xampp on my Arch Linux system. What i want to do now:</p>
  
  <p>My PHP working directory is located in my home-folder (at <em>/home/luke/PHP</em>). I want Apache to access those files two, so i followed the <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xampp#Hosting_files_outside_the_htdocs_directory" rel="nofollow">Xampp Installation guide</a> on the Arch Linux Wiki and created an Alias for this Directory.
  This is what my httpd.conf (the Alias part) looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Alias /PHP /home/luke/PHP
  &lt;directory /home/luke/PHP&gt;
      AllowOverride FileInfo Limit Options Indexes
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
  &lt;/directory&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After that, i changed the permissions for the <em>home/luke/PHP</em>-folder to 777 (using chmod). I restarted Xampp and got a 403 when i tried to navigate into <em>http://localhost/PHP</em></p>
  
  <p>The Apache-Server runs under the <em>http</em>-User (which exists) and the <em>http</em>-Group. So, i added the <em>http</em>-User in my Group (the group <em>luke</em> from my user, using the chown-tool). I restarted the Server, same error.</p>
  
  <p>Here is (a part from) the error_log-file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Sun Apr 24 18:05:37 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Keine Berechtigung: access to /PHP/ denied
  [Sun Apr 24 18:10:30 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Keine Berechtigung: access to /PHP/ denied
  [Sun Apr 24 18:10:30 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Keine Berechtigung: access to /PHP/ denied
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So, the Alias I created should work, but what do I need to do to make my <em>/home/luke/PHP</em>-folder accessible to the Apache Server?</p>
  
  <p>I also tried to create a Symlink in the <em>htdocs</em>-folder, but that didn't work neither.</p>