Why can't I access Xampp's phpmyadmin on localhost? Access is forbidden.

Question

I can access localhost fine on Xampp with phpmyadmin on ubuntu. I can see the contents of /htdocs which I completely cleared and wrote my own for. I want to access phpmyad

Answer 1

I solved this by creating a new virtual host for phpmyadmin

For windows systems:

Append the following to C:/xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf:

NameVirtualHost phpmyadmin.local


  ServerName phpmyadmin.local
  DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/phpmyadmin"
  
    AllowOverride All
    Allow from All
  

Change the DocumentRoot/Directory to the path where you have installed your version of phpmyadmin.

Open the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file in a text editor and add the following line:

127.0.0.1     phpmyadmin.local

then save the hosts file and restart xampp.