I read the docs and installed lithium exactly like they have explained but I keep on getting a 403 forbidden error. I am new to apache and php and I have been spending two full days trying to make lithium work. I am running apache 2.0 on osx lion and here is what I did:
1- I created a new directory called my_app in localhost/~marwan/
2- I extracted the sample lithium app in to that directory.
3- I downloaded the lithium framework and extracted it into /libraries/lithium/
When I access http://localhost/~marwan/my_app/ I get the following 403 error:
You don't have permission to access /~marwan/mj/ on this server.
I have researched and added Options +FollowSymLinks to the .htaccess file and the error changed to:
You don't have permission to access /Users/marwan/Sites/my_app/app/webroot/webroot/ on this server.
I have tried to add Options +FollowSymLinks to every .htaccess file but nothing changed.
I dont know if this is relevant: websites on localhost/~marwan/ work but localhost also shows a 403 error. I tried to fiddle with different permissions posted in previous answers but with no luck.
Thank you for your help.
httpd.conf file is here http://pastebin.com/jLwHPbuq
Edit: httpd-userdir.conf is here http://pastebin.com/ZXi51pn7 httpd-vhosts.conf is here http://pastebin.com/3xqRmrzL
Update
The lithium project works when I remove the .htaccess from the main folder but it doesnt work properly because rewriting doesnt work. Here is the .htacces in the project root http://pastebin.com/vt0fVyyL
I looked at the error log after restarting apache and found DocumentRoot [/usr/docs/dummy-host.example.com] does not exist so I fixed it by using this answer stackoverflow.com/questions/6671042/… and now it works.