WAMP 403 Forbidden message on Windows 7

Question

I have installed WAMP version 2.1 on my windows 7 machine. When i browse to localhost in my browser, the WAMP server page is visible.

But when I browse to my IP in m

Answer 1

if you have used localhost/phpmyadmin/

simply use

127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/ for PHPMyAdmin

127.0.0.1/sqlbuddy/ for SQLBuddy

or if you have used localhost:8080/phpmyadmin/ then

127.0.0.1:8080/phpmyadmin/ for PHPMyAdmin

127.0.0.1:8080/sqlbuddy/ for SQLBuddy

Answer 2

I had this problem too. The route of my problem was I had made a mistake in my vhosts.conf file. If you are using vhosts this is another thing to check

Answer 3

I have found that if you are using ammps that for some reason its always forbidden when its in your root folder so i put it in the directory above my root folder and made a alias in the httpd.conf using this

Alias /phpmyadmin "C:/Program Files (x86)/Ampps/phpMyAdmin"

please note i am using ammps and i dont know for sure if it will work for others but its worth a try ;)

Answer 4

For Apache version 2.4.x simply replace Require local with Require all granted in httpd.conf file inside <Directory "c:/wamp/www/"> tag then Restart all services

Answer 5

I faced this issue with wamp on windows 7. Adding following code to httpd-vhosts.conf solved the issue for me.

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot "F:/wamp_server/www/"
  ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

Answer 6

I tried the configs above and only this worked for my WAMP Apache 2.4.2 config. For multiple root site without named domains in your Windows hosts file, use http://locahost:8080, http://localhost:8081, http://localhost:8082 and this configuration:

#ServerName localhost:80
ServerName localhost

Listen 8080
Listen 8081
Listen 8082
#..... 
<VirtualHost *:8080>
    DocumentRoot "c:\www"
    ServerName localhost
    <Directory "c:/www/">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride all
        Require local
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:8081>
    DocumentRoot "C:\www\directory abc\svn_abc\trunk\httpdocs"
    ServerName localhost
    <Directory "C:\www\directory abc\svn_abc\trunk\httpdocs">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride all
        Require local
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#<VirtualHost *:8082></VirtualHost>.......