Alias 403 Forbidden with Apache

Question

I'm trying to create a folder named week7 and an html page named hello.html in that folder outside the document root and have it viewed through an Alias directive.

I created a folder named week7 out of the Document Root. I chose this location for it:

/usr/local/www/week7

while my document root is:

/usr/local/www/apache22/data

in httpd.conf and under tag, I wrote:

    Alias /week7 /usr/local/www/week7
<Directory /usr/local/www/week7>
    Require all granted
</Directory>

After rebooting the server, I got the following message: Forbidden 403 message.

I tried changing permissions for the hello.html file, the week7 folder and even the www folder and nothing changed.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you're using apache 2.4

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

becomes...

Require all granted

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html