Error 403 on Win98

[Guest_imported]

Installed Apache 1.3.23 on Win 98 machine. Apache runs okay in Console window, but when I try accessing localhost or 127.0.0.1 in browser it returns Error 403, telling me I don't have right to access it.

I've repeated the same installation on Windows ME and all seems to work. Is there something I need to do different on Windows 98?

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

Check your host file and make sure that localhost points back to your computer..

The host file should be in your windows directory..

If this doesn't work, let me know and I will try other solutions..

Hope this helps Wullie

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[ifincham]

Hi,

As far as I know, there is virtually no difference with the win32 installs on any platform (except that you can run it as a service on NT/W2K/XP and you can't in 9x/ME. ) Very little goes anywhere near the registry and all the config options are in the httpd.conf file. You could always try that favorite Windows troubleshooting technique known as reinstalling. :-D


More seriously, have you got the M$ personal web server (PWS) or IIS (?) installed because that could cause a conflict with apache. To test if its a problem with port 80 like that you could add another 'Listen' line to the httpd.conf file - e.g. :

Listen 80
Listen 81

then try

http://127.0.0.1:81

Hope this helps

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks wullie & ifincham for your replies - it was the conflict with PWS that caused it. Listen 81 fixed it