title: xampp 1.7.3 upgrade broken virtual hosts access forbidden
body: <p>I've got a similar issue to that reported by another user here
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5371858/xampp-v1-7-4-installation-issues-local-host-not-working">XAMPP v1.7.4 installation issues,local host not working</a></p>
  
  <p>Upgrading xampp to 1.7.3 (osx) in my case has broken my virtual hosts. </p>
  
  <p>In /etc/hosts I've got</p>
  
  <pre><code>127.0.0.1       localhost
  255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
  ::1             localhost  
  fe80::1%lo0     localhost
  
  127.0.0.1 mysite.test
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In /Applications/XAMPP/etc/httpd.conf I've got:</p>
  
  <pre><code>LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so #uncommented
  Include /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf #uncommented
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf I've got:
      # Use name-based virtual hosting.
      NameVirtualHost *:80
      NameVirtualHost *:443</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
    ServerName mysite.test
    DocumentRoot "/path-to-mysite/"
    &lt;Directory "/path-to-mysite/"&gt;
      DirectoryIndex index.php
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride All
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
    &lt;/Directory&gt;
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When tryng to access mysite.test Apache is logged in the following error
      [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied</p>
  
  <p>I've deleted the .htaccess, and repaired my disk permissions in case that was causing the problem. </p>
  
  <p>Can anyone suggest what I might be missing?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks ahead.</p>