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Permissions error after Mac migration / localhost

Permissions error after Mac migration / localhost

ramennoodles
Helpful | Level 5
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Hey everyone! The Dropbox app recently moved my Dropbox folder in to the Library and now my web development environment isn't working properly. Whenever I go to my 'localhost', I get error messages. 

 

The error messages I am receiving are:

- "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this server."  (MAMP 5.3)

- "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access this resource. Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe." (MAMP 6.8)

 

My setup:

- I keep my development files on Dropbox

- I use MAMP as a PHP server

- Mac Ventura 13.3

 

Help! 

 

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maxymouse
Explorer | Level 4
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Thanks @Walter. I have found a solution (mentioned above), and I didn't find giving MAMP full disk access made a difference, although it was worth a try! It seems to be more about Mac restricting access to port 80 … although I barely even know what that means!

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