Comments on: Two tips for fixing Apache problems

By: Andrew McCombe

Andrew McCombe — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:17:54 +0000

Sorry, my previous comment is ambigous. The mixing of + and – is invalid. You can still use them.

By: Andrew McCombe

Andrew McCombe — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:16:23 +0000

If you are still getting the ‘Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden’ error message, try removing the ‘+’ at the start of +FollowSymLinks.

Using + and – is invalid syntax according to the apache website (See the notes section of Options at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#options).

By: Lichi

Lichi — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:20:51 +0000

Thanks!!.. this saved my day!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:27:22 +0000

thank you so much for providing this solution. I was on the street of pain for over an hour until I finally looked at my logs, and then I was able to find this resource and apply your suggestion to my WordPress .htaccess file

By: Asiat

Asiat — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:11:26 +0000

Thanks, this tip saved me from a support call and hours of fustration.

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!

By: Re: no permission to access MAMP on this server « wogahilog

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.