Forbidden: You don't have permission to access / on this server, WAMP Error

Question

I have installed wamp on windows 8 and received above error whenever I go to localhost or phpmyadmin. After much searching I found many ans

Answer 1

By default wamp sets the following as the default for any directory not explicitly declared:

    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied

For me, if I comment out the line that says Require all denied I started having access to the directory in question. I don't recommend this.

Instead in the directory directive I included Require local as below:

    AllowOverride All
    Allow from all
    Require local

NOTE: I was still getting permission denied when I only had Allow from all. Adding Require local helped for me.