Comments on: Two tips for fixing Apache problems

By: Daisy

Daisy — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:46:52 +0000

I was having the exact same problem, getting 403 Forbidden. What I did to fix the problem was go into httpd.conf and replace the following between the Directory tags:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None

I hope this helps someone out :)

By: Maarten

Maarten — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:05:49 +0000

Thanks for helping me find a solution to my problem!

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Re: no permission to access MAMP on this server « wogahilog — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:35:29 +0000

[...] the error “Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off” and finding this page:http://www.elharo.com/blog/software-development/web-development/2006/01/02/two-tips-for-fixing-apach…, then somehow figuring out that the httpd.conf file was the same as an htaccess file, and finally [...]

By: jorgen

jorgen — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:35:26 +0000

fanx a lot – helped me too – even though searching for ‘Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden’ implies that I actually read the error_log file;-)

Moving the ‘Options FollowSymLinks’ right above of the ‘RewriteEngine On’ line sure did the trick for me.

So now – bookmark and back to work.

kind regards
jj

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:42:46 +0000

Finally a fix that worked! I am running Apache/2.2.13 (Win32) and got this error with a virtual host that I added using the Uniform Server admin panel. Thank you.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:44:02 +0000

Thanks for the help.

I found that I had to put a copy of my .htaccess file with Options +FollowSymLinks in the CGI directory too to get CGIs to run when the web root directory had its own .htaccess file that turned RewriteEngine on.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:57:51 +0000

Thanks, that helped me a lot.

By: Thiago Taranto

Thiago Taranto — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:17:22 +0000

Works for me with OSX Leopart and Apache22.

Thanks!

By: skelly

skelly — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:20:03 +0000

While I fail to see the correlation between following symlinks and rewrite rules, this does appear also to do the trick for Apache 2.2 . I found another caveat however: not only does the Options directive need to appear before the RewriteEngine directive, in some cases it may need to be -immediately- before, as in the previous line. I had other completely unrelated directives between the two and for no sensible reason, the effect was nullified. However the solution worked once I relocated the other directives to after the ModRewrite rules by following Options immediately with the RewriteEngine directive. Stupid, but accepted. Thanks for the tip.

- SK

By: Eric Hoff

Eric Hoff — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:09:16 +0000

I got the 403 error until I added +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch to the Options directive as well. So my .htaccess file looked like this:
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Options +FollowSymLinks +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine On
….

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Thanks again for the help though! Saved me a lot of work!