I am new to programming. I followed the instructions in Chap 1 installing xampp and changing the files to provide for the virtual server, but after restarting Apache and MySql I tested the files and get the message Access forbidden!
I don't know what to do from this point.
Any help would be appreciated.

I may be misunderstanding the situation, but it "sounds" pretty simple. It sounds like the old and new domain are both pointed at the same web hosting account? Probably all you need to do is forward the domains from domain1/? to domain2/? using the 301 syntax. Granted it sounds like there's a problem there too. But let's take it one piece at a time.

Try modifying the redirect just get the files from the old to the new website. It will probably come across as a 302 redirect, but can you at least get that working?

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