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Permission denied when accessing Sites directory on a Mac

posted: Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

Solution:

Open your Apache conf file:

sudo vi /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

…and relax the permissions somewhat by commenting out (with a #) or removing the ‘deny from all’ line:

<Directory />
        AllowOverride None
        Order Deny,Allow
#       Deny from all
</Directory>

With thanks to Damon Parker. See his site for an explanation of why you need to fix this in the first place.

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One Response to “Permission denied when accessing Sites directory on a Mac”

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