Hi, I am running Apache 2 on windows xp pro. It was running fine and one day, all of a sudden I could not access my website anymore. I made no changes to the server and it runs ok because I am able to view the page locally through localhost but I can't view it from any other computer. Again, no changes were made to the config file.

I have a dynamic IP address and use NO-IP.com's Dynamic Update Client (DUC). I have even updated to the latest version but have had no luck.

Internet Explorer says "HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden" and Firefox says "Directory Listing Denied This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed".

Please help. I am newbie and don't know what to do now.

Oh, one thing...I don't know that it matters but the site was up and then that night we had weird power outages and the next day was when the site stopped working. All of the servers components seem to be ok, all of its network connections are good.

Thanks,
REMGU

I recommend you check for errors on your hard drive.

It sounds like there is something wrong with the configuration of Apache. You might want to check whether the http.conf file is still intact.

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MiniApache

In your virtual host conf file for the site, what are the values, if any, for the following directives:

VirtualHost
NameVirtualHost

They should look something like this

VirtualHost *.80
NameVirtualHost *.80

If you have a specific IP address specified in either directive, remove it and replace it with a *.

Weird power outages can also cause a broadband modem to power cycle and lease a new IP address. Becuase you have a dynamic IP address and your site stopped working spontaneously, I'm guessing that your conf file states an explicit IP address to listen on. When your IP address changed it broke the directive, causing Apache to no longer accept requests for your site.

jimminy, I see what you are saying but my config file does not have any listed IP address. I do have virtual hosts setup but they are set to listen to *80.

I use a Dynamic Update Client from No-IP.com that grab whatever IP the modem gives me and passes it on to teh DNS server.

If you have more advice please keep them comming as I just can't get to teh cause of teh problem.

Thanks again.

Thanks,
REMGU

Check your Apache error log. It will tell you what is being requested, and possibly why it is 403'd. I wouldn't even bother doing anything else until I'd done this.