Setting up Laragon on Windows is a straightforward process. Laragon is a portable, isolated, fast, and powerful development environment for PHP, Node.js, Python, and Ruby applications. It comes with Apache, MySQL, PHP, and other essential tools pre-configured, making it easy to set up a local development environment. (more…)

Apache Error log shows the message "Client denied by server configuration" and the user sees "Forbidden Access" when they try to visit a web page. Solution: Search for the apache configuration file (httpd.conf or vhosts.conf if you have configured a virtual host). Check for the directory permission set for the document root of the web site in question and do the following changes. (more…)

If you are to setup CakePHP in a virtual hosting environment, we need to ensure that the DocumentRoot is setup correctly. Based on the experience I have had I thought to list down the virtual host setting and cakephp .htaccess setting files. root@myserver:/etc/apache2/conf.d# cat vhosts.conf NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.100:80 <VirtualHost 192.168.1.100:80> ServerName cakeapp DocumentRoot /var/www/cakeapp </VirtualHost> (Note that there is no ending forward slash after /var/www/cakeapp. If there had been one, it might cause a problem if the /var/www/cakeapp/app/config/routes.php is not configured correctly indicating a never ending loop in resolving domain name) root@myserver:/etc/apache2/conf.d# cat /var/www/cakeapp/.htaccess <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L] RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L] </IfModule>