title: Getting 403 forbidden error on WAMP server when usng SSL
body: <p>I have just spent the last 4 hours trying to get SSL working on my local devolopment wamp server (windows 7).</p>
  
  <p>Everything seems to be setup ok now, well the server restarts without any errors at least!!</p>
  
  <p>The only issue I can not seem to solve is a 403 forbidden when I try to access my site through HTTPS (SSL 443).  It works fine on port 80, just not on 443.
  The error log shows the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>[error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: F:/My Webs/freedate/public_html/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My http.conf file has the following vhost added</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
      ServerName www.freedate.local
      ServerAlias freedate.local *.freedate.local
      DocumentRoot "F:\My Webs\freedate\public_html"
  
      &lt;Directory "F:\My Webs\freedate\public_html"&gt;
          allow from all
          order allow,deny
          # Enables .htaccess files for this site
          AllowOverride All
      &lt;/Directory&gt;
      DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And my httpd-ssl.conf has the following vhost added</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:443&gt;
      SSLEngine on
      SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
      SSLCertificateFile "C:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.21/conf/ssl/server.crt"
      SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.21/conf/ssl/server.key"
  
      ServerName www.freedate.local
      ServerAlias freedate.local *.freedate.local
      DocumentRoot "F:\My Webs\freedate\public_html"
  
      &lt;Directory "F:\My Webs\freedate\public_html"&gt;
          Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
          AllowOverride All
          Order allow,deny
          Allow from all
      &lt;/Directory&gt;
      DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If anyone can spot what I am doing wrong I would be most grateful, many thanks.</p>
  
  <p>Kind regards
  Garry</p>