liamoco Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Hello, I am currently dual booting win7 and Linux Ubuntu, I have install xampp on both OS, on win7 I have the DocumentRoot directing to a folder on my desktop. On my Linux OS I also change the httpd.conf file to direct to that same folder on my win7 desktop, but when I tried to view the web pages on my browser I'm getting a forbidden error. Are there any permissions I need to change how do I do this? Why am I having these problems. If I need to specify any more details please say. Access forbidden! You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 You need to ensure that the user Apache runs as (you can find this in your main httpd.conf file) has read permissions to the directory in question on both systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 You have to mount the Windows drive partition in Ubuntu (it may be already, depending how you installed it) and point Apache to the path in there: "C:\XAMPP\whatever" will not work - it'll look more like "/mnt/windows/C/XAMPP/whatever". Depending on the mount options, you might not have to worry about permissions. Linux can't use its permissions system on NTFS partitions; typically the fake permissions are set like "everybody can read, nobody can write" or "everybody can read and write". You'll probably want the latter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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