Access denied, forbidden after starting CakePHP or Kohana with .htaccess.
april 22, 2012
After renaming example.htaccess on Kohana directly after copying the files to the www server, you receive an ‘access denied’ of ‘forbidden’.
The solution is to enable FollowSymlinks in the httpd.conf.
So, in the Uniform Server you go to the Server Configuration:
Click Apache:
Edit httpd.conf
Somewhere around line 292 add FollowSymlinks:
Save. Stop Apache and Start Apache. And lo and behold:
