Just reloaded my main computer, put on Windows 8.1 (used to have 7). This is my primary development computer at home. Traditionally I just installed a WAMP server manually and was off to the races.
This time though I'm trying something different. Everything (or most) will be kept on my computer but I will be using a VM with Ubuntu Server installed to facilitate the AMP part. Currently I have everything going as I want: SSH is set up, Apache is installed via apt-get, I have my Windows share mounted in /media/web with the correct credentials, etc.
My issue is I am running into a 403 forbidden error when trying to access the page in the browser, via the VM's IP address, which I know is correct since I tested it when Apache was first installed. I found this article on Stack Overflow, but being a Linux noob I am not quite sure what is meant by "...and created a symbolic link". I have added the umask property or whatever its called and everything is mounted under my user name so I have permissions. I also added the <directory> stuff that's mentioned in the other answer to my /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf file. I am assuming I am just missing that last piece of the puzzle to have this working, then I can move onto setting up PHP and MariaDB.
My understanding of symbolic links is they are similar to shortcuts in Windows. Kinda. But in any case I am not sure what is being made into the link and what to do with it after.
And yes, I have been running sudo service apache2 restart when making changes. :p
Thanks in advance!