title: Apache 403 Forbidden error when configuring a directory outside of root directory
body: <p>I'm trying to config my server to use a directory /home/imagenesDBD and I Can't get it work, I have googled a lot, and made every sample I found, but nothing is working, i Just add the following to the httpd.conf file</p>
  
  <pre><code>Alias "/imagenesDBD" "/home/imagenesDBD"
  &lt;Directory "/home/imagenesDBD"&gt;
      Options FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride None
      Order allow,deny
      allow from all
  &lt;/Directory&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The directory has 0777 permission setting</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JweA5.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JweA5.png" alt="Permission of execution"></a></p>
  
  <p>The context of the Directories are</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TReCN.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TReCN.png" alt="context directories"></a></p>
  
  <p>I was Expecting to get this URL Working <a href="http://mydomain/imagenesDBD" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://mydomain/imagenesDBD</a></p>
  
  <p>and got the following error</p>
  
  <p>403 - You don't have permission to access /imagenesDBD/ on this server.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IBgAI.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IBgAI.png" alt="You don&#39;t have permission to access /imagenesDBD/ on this server."></a></p>
  
  <p>thanks for your help</p>