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

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 ;)