Access Forbidden! Apache Windows XP

Question

This is a great tutorial on how to server websites other than in default htdocs folder in XAMPP. It worked for me the other day but then I had to reinstall XAMPP (1.7.7 was 1.7.6) and now I am getting this error when I try the same.

Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 403

I have put this in http.conf file according to the above link

<Directory "C:/Blog">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Alias /blog/ "C:/Blog" # this goes inside the alias module

When I type url, I get these message.

localhost/blog       #gets error, object not found
localhost/blog/      #Access Foribdden
localhost/blog2/     #this folder does not exist and it rightly says object not found

Can anyone throw some light on this. Note that I have added everyone user to blog folder but still have the problem. I have added plane html file as well, still have the same problem. I cannot find .htaccess file.

Answer 1

Dont know how it got fixed but I played with this line

Alias /blog/ "C:/Blog"

changed it to C:/Blog/ which did not work and then changed it back to what it is above and it starting working. It took at least half an hour of mine.

More

I began the same error (Access foribidden) again after I changed the port to 8080. This time the fix was changing the above line to

Alias /blog/ "C:/Blog/"

This is very unclear how this one line can create such error.