Change XAMPP's htdocs web root folder to another one

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Published on 2011-10-03T14:01:05Z Indexed on 2012/07/06 3:24 UTC
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I'm trying to change the XAMPP's web root default directory /opt/lampp/htocs to another one like /home/me/Dropbox/public_html without success.

I've edited the file /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf

# old line: DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/htdocs"
DocumentRoot "/home/me/Dropbox/public_html"

#...etc...

# old line: <Directory "/opt/lampp/htdocs">
<Directory "/home/me/Dropbox/Work/public_html">
#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
#   Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
# etc...

I've did this as said in this article: Using Ubuntu One to synchronise htdocs?

Then I've restarted Apache and I've got a permission error 403 on every page I've called with the web browser.

So I've changed folder and files permission to 755.

I've did this as said in this article:
What file permissions should I set on web root?

The problem still remains the same, I have the 403 error on every page I try to reach with the web browser.

I have the same problem on a Mac using XAMPP.

So everythig works fine if the folder remains the original /opt/lampp/htocs.

How can I change it correctly?

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