lamp, Xamp apache issue

[SBSP]

I have xamp installed but when i try to access the server from a remote machine
I get the following error.

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.


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Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8e PHP/5.2.5 mod_apreq2-20051231/2.6.0 mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.10.0 Server at xx.xx.xx.xx Port 80

I have checked the httpd.conf file and it has the "allow from all" setting set.
I also did a chmod 775 -R /opt/lampp/htdocs

And i made sure i restarted the server after every change.
/opt/lampp/lampp stop
and
/opt/lampp/lampp start

and i still get the same errors.

In wamp (Apache for windows) you can access the page from ip 127.0.0.1 but not from a remote ip.
If you want to have it display pages for remote ip's you have to put it online.
I'm sure this configures something in apache and this is what i need to configure before lampp will run.

By the way LAMPP is combined install (MySQL,PHP5,apache) just like Wamp.

[doo_much]

PM me your "conf/httpd.conf" file.

[SBSP]

Ah man I wish i could its slax inside a virtual machine.

[doo_much]

Faark, I'd have compared to mine - have no probs with network in XAMPP.

Try this?

[SBSP]

Ive tried that still no luck

[doo_much]

I'm doing the Google thing...

[SBSP]

I'm going to try and install apache manually then test again maybe there is a problem with the package

[SBSP]

I'm doing the Google thing...

Ive googled beleive me.

Some people have the same issue and recon its a bug in lampp

[SBSP]

I found the problem

Its because i created my own folders with in the htdocs directory and the user: nobody didnt have access to it.
Only root had access

And apache is set to use the user nobody to access the folder and apache dont like running as root.

Ive tried

Simple as that

[doo_much]

And thus we live and learn!