Getting "403 Forbidden" error when trying to install Mahara/Dolphin on localhost

f.user · 09-03-2009, 10:00 PM

I keep on Getting "403 Forbidden" error when trying to install Mahara/Dolphin on localhost.

Platform: Fedora 11 X64

Mahara (Dolphin) was extracted to /home/fuser/Download/mahara. A symbolic link was created in /var/www/html/. MySQL database was created and user name and password were taken care of using myPHPadmin.

I chmoded /home/fuser/Download/mahara and all subfolders under mahara:

Quote:

chmod -R 777 /home/fuser/Download/mahara

when I pointed to mahara's installation file in my browser, I got:

Quote:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /mahara/install/index.php on this server.
Apache/2.2.13 (Fedora) Server at localhost Port 80

I tried dolphin and got the same error. Someone please help me!

Ps. I was able to install and run WordPress without problem on the same machine!

carltm · 09-05-2009, 05:27 AM

You probably need to add a Directory tag for /home/fuser/Download/mahara
in the httpd.conf file.

f.user · 09-05-2009, 09:58 PM

Hi, carltm

My document root is set like this in httpd.conf:

Quote:

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

Should I add the "/home/fuser/Download/mahara" path explicitly in that section? Or somewhere else? Thanks!

carltm · 09-06-2009, 08:08 AM

There should be a set of lines like this:

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Try copying those and updating the path to your new path.