Title: .webp on wamp problem
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# .webp on wamp problem

 *  Resolved [millllan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/millllan/)
 * (@millllan)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-on-wamp-problem/)
 * When trying to access a .png I get 403 forbidden, and when i try to access .webp
   file directly it opens without problem.
 * example:
 * [http://www.europos.co.rs/wp-content/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/test.png](http://www.europos.co.rs/wp-content/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/test.png)
 * Forbidden
 * You don’t have permission to access /C:/wamp/www/wp-content/plugins/ewww-image-
   optimizer/test.png.webp on this server.
 * But when i try to open webp directly it works ? …
    [http://www.europos.co.rs/wp-content/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/test.png.webp](http://www.europos.co.rs/wp-content/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/test.png.webp)
 * I have ur rewrite rules in .htaccess
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [nosilver4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-on-wamp-problem/#post-5657219)
 * sounds like permissions/ownership is set wrong on the png files, but since the.
   webp files are created (and therefore owned) by the user account running the 
   apache service, those do not have any problems. Does the issue persist if you
   remove the ewww io rewrite rules?
 *  Thread Starter [millllan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/millllan/)
 * (@millllan)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-on-wamp-problem/#post-5657270)
 * i removed them and now i can access to both png and webp …
 *  Thread Starter [millllan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/millllan/)
 * (@millllan)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-on-wamp-problem/#post-5657272)
 * apache is running under SYSTEM user (as windows service) … windows file security
   is set so everybody has RW access
 * httpd.conf is set like this :
 * <Directory “c:/wamp/www/”>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride all 
   Order Allow,Deny Allow from all </Directory>
 *  Plugin Author [nosilver4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-on-wamp-problem/#post-5657292)
 * Sounds like you’re missing an apache module needed for the ewww io rules. Make
   sure you have both mod_rewrite and mod_headers enabled.
 *  Thread Starter [millllan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/millllan/)
 * (@millllan)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-on-wamp-problem/#post-5657365)
 * Both moduls are enabled, but no luck for me… i tried with some other rules that
   i googled out but nothing … too bad
 * Also an suggestion, is it possible that ur plugin runs conversions processes 
   on lower processor priority? It would be a nice option
 *  Plugin Author [nosilver4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-on-wamp-problem/#post-5657471)
 * It does run at lower priority, but only on *nix hosts. I don’t know of a way 
   to do that on Windows.
 * Can’t imagine what else would cause the rewrite problems, but perhaps you need
   to add the image/webp stuff to your server (apache) mimetype list. Not real sure
   how to do that with wamp, I try to avoid Windows like a plague.

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