title: Xampp/Mac - make a JPEG file accessible via HTTP
body: <p>I have a virtual directory set up:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/branding"&gt;
      Options None
      AllowOverride All
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
  &lt;/Directory&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>with an alias defined:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Alias /branding "/Applications/XAMPP/branding"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i put a jpeg file in that folder and trying to access it via:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://127.0.0.1/branding/image.jpeg
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting an authentication error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Access forbidden!
  
  You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.
  
  If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
  
  Error 403
  
  127.0.0.1
  Tue Nov 13 12:15:14 2012
  Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l PHP/5.3.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I restarted the web server after making my changes.</p>
  
  <p>what am I doing wrong?</p>