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

This configuration in httpd.conf work fine for me.

<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1 ::1
</Directory>

Answer 2

make sure that, the name of the file in the directory c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.1.3.1/, match the name (or version) in the phpMyAdmin.conf (Alias /phpmyadmin "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.1.3.1/" )

Answer 3

Surprisingly, square brackets in DocumentRoot (and related, like <Directory>) paths can also cause error 403:

• DocumentRoot "P:/TRY/web/fatfree/from_github/fatfree-master[bang]" failed with 403, while
• DocumentRoot "P:/TRY/web/fatfree/from_github/fatfree-master" worked fine.

(I didn't bother figuring out the Apache path escaping, if any, just renamed the path instead. If anyone knows, comments are welcome.)

Answer 4

Also on Apache 2,4 you may need to add this to the directory directive in conf, in case you decided to include httpd-vhosts.conf.

By default you can install wamp in C:\ but still choose to deploy your web development in another location.

To do this inside the vhosts.conf you can add this directive:

<Directory "e:/websites">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    AllowOverride All
  <IfDefine APACHE24>
    Require local
  </IfDefine>
  <IfDefine !APACHE24>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Allow from all
    Allow from localhost ::1 127.0.0.1
  </IfDefine>
</Directory>

Answer 5

Thanks for your question. I'am using wamp 3 now. And I find an simple answer to do this under your question. But that answer should change a little on wamp 3. The steps are as following:

1. Right click wamp icon
2. Choose Wamp Setting
3. Click the Menu item:online/offline
4. Left click wamp icon
5. You will find there is a new item called "Put online"

Answer 6

Make sure you aren't using a Windows' directory separator character (backslash) in your path names in your .conf file, even if you are on Windows. Apache doesn't understand them but will still start up and then output a 403 Forbidden Message.

wrong:

<Directory "c:\websites\my-website\">

right:

<Directory "c:/websites/my-website/">