ZendFramework FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch error in XAMPP

by on July 13, 2010 in AS Burst

Problem:
You may be getting a 403 error and if you look at the logs you should find something similar to the following:

[error] [client 127.0.0.1] Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden: /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs/project/public/index.php

Solution:

In your .htaccess file add the following line to the begining of the file:

PHP:
    Options +FollowSymLinks

ZendFramework .htaccess ships with the following as default:

PHP:
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
    RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
    RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

Adding the two lines above fixes the problem. So the file should look like this:

PHP:
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
    RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
    RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

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