title: Fixing 403 Forbidden on alias directory with Apache
body: <p>I am trying to setup an alias to point to some directory on my filesystem not in DocumentRoot. Now I get a 403 Forbidden response. These are the steps taken:
  1. edit http.conf, adding:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Alias /example "/Users/user/Documents/example"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>then...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Directory "/Users/user/Documents/example"&gt;
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
     AllowOverride None
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all&lt;/Directory&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>2. setting permissions with chmod in terminal:</p>
  
  <pre><code>chmod 755 /Users/user/Documents/example
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now it should work? instead I get the access forbidden. This is the output from error_log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Sun Jul 24 06:57:57 2011] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] (13)Permission denied: access to /example denied
  </code></pre>