Title: DeskServer cannot open install.php
Last modified: September 8, 2016

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# DeskServer cannot open install.php

 *  [donit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donit/)
 * (@donit)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deskserver-cannot-open-install-php/)
 * Hello,
    I’m using MacBooksPro with MAC and Windows 10 via Parallels Desktop (
   virtual machine). I do have Apache installed on MAC and it’s working well and
   I created websites using PHP (without WordPress) and uploaded it on web and it
   was working with no problem. Now, I installed the latest DesktopServer on Win
   10 and created [http://www.example.dev](http://www.example.dev) site but I’m 
   getting the error message as below when I’m clicking on a link on DesktopServer
   to open the install.php. ————— Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /
   wp-admin/install.php on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was 
   encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/
   2.4.12 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.1l PHP/5.5.24 Server at [http://www.example.dev](http://www.example.dev)
   Port 80 ———————- I did stop “World Wide Web Publishing Service”. I did stop SSRS
   before the DesktopServer installation as it used port 80 and it wasn’t allow 
   to install DesktopServer.
 * The netstat shows that port 80 used by PID 2552 only that is httpd.exe
    netstat-
   o -n -a | findstr 0.0.0.0:80 shows TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2552
 * I did change httpd.config to use port 8080 and changing the first <Directory>
   option into
    <Directory “C:/Websites/”> #Options Indexes MultiViews Options FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> I did restart the DesktopServer
   but the localhost is still on port 80 and it didn’t help to open the install.
   php or [http://www.example.dev](http://www.example.dev) anyway.
 * I could see from the Internet that it could be a very common problem as many 
   people asking about the same error. The answered posts didn’t help me. There 
   are also many with no-reply similar questions.
    While I wouldn’t like to disable
   everything on my computer please advise what else I could do to make it work.
   Or I could try to install Apache and then to download WordPress giving up on 
   DesktopServer.
 * Thanks

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