By calefilm on

I get this message when I "Open Start Page" in MAMP:

Forbidden

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

"Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) PHP/5.2.11 DAV/2 Server at localhost Port 8888"

Apache Port 8888
MySQL Port 8889

I've been using these settings for months now. My document root on my localhost is /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/drupal I haven't changed anything there.

I am as perplexed as I've ever been. I was fine building my site locally on my Mac using MAMP, and was testing it out on my webhost: 1and1.com but their php was outdated so they requested I add: AddType x-mapp-php5 .php to my .htaccess file. So i went to my web root at 1and1, found the .htaccess file and pasted AddType x-mapp-php5 .php in at the top. Lo and behold my site was up and running ready to install drupal. So that was fine. Then I come back to my computer and suddenly can't find my local host and get the Forbidden Message (at top)

I even reinstalled MAMP hoping it would resolve this issue but I get this same issue.

Can anyone assist?

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calefilm commented

For anyone who can't open the start page but can open sites in the htdocs directory, this is what I did:

1. Power MAMP down.
2. Open up your httpd.conf file in Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/. (You'll need TextWrangler or some such program.)
3. Find this section of code (lines 378-381 for me):

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All

4. Change "AllowOverride All" to "AllowOverride None".
5. Save your httpd.conf file.
6. Test this by firing up MAMP and opening up your start page (mine is http://localhost:8888/MAMP/?language=English) and voila! You should be all set.

source (mellonade): http://forum.mamp.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6879#p15053