解决修改XAMPP DocumentRoot: Access forbidden!

changing the document root to your ‘Sites’ folder

• install xampp from apachefriends.org
• open /Applications/XAMPP/xampfiles/etc/ in finder; right click > get info
  make sure its read / write by everyone
• open /Applications/XAMPP/xampfiles/etc/httpd.conf
• scroll down to ‘DocumentRoot’
• type in the location of your ‘sites’ folder [ /Users/username/Sites ]
• scroll down to the <Directory&gt config
• replace /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs with /Users/username/Sites
• save
• restart apache
• goto http://localhost to see what you have

Then gives this error:

“Access forbidden!

You don’t have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. …”

To solve this:

sudo chmod 777  /Users/username/Sites