WAMP Server ERROR “Forbidden You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server.”

Question

Hi Friends previously I am using XAMP Server but when I install joomla Templates it creates alots of error. Now I installed the WAMP, but the issues are: 1. I can access wit

Answer 1

Change the file content of c:\wamp\alias\phpmyadmin.conf to the following.

<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.5/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
        Order Deny,Allow
        Allow from all
</Directory>

Here my WAMP installation is in the c:\wamp folder. Change it according to your installation.

Previously, it was like this:

<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.5/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
        Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>

Restart your Apache server after making these changes.

Answer 2

For WampServer 2.2 with Apache 2.4.2 I ended up with:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Require local

Answer 3

just add following line in wamp/alias/phpmyadmin.conf
Allow from ::1

so it will look something like this depending your phpmyadmin version.

<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.5.1/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
    Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from ::1
</Directory> 

Answer 4

So none of the above stuff worked for me. Except this: edit httpd.conf,

find the line

Listen 80 

and change to

listen 0.0.0.0:80 

if you are running windows 8, its got something to do with using ipv6 instead of ipv4

Answer 5

To solve this, I opened httpd.conf and changed the following line:

Allow from 127.0.0.1

to:

Allow from 127.0.0.1 ::1

Answer 6

Change in following file \bin\apache\apache2.2.22\conf\httpd.conf

Replace Listen 80 with Listen 0.0.0.0:80

Replace

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

with

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Replace

onlineoffline tag - don't remove

Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1

with

onlineoffline tag - don't remove

Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1

in \wamp\alias\phpmyadmin.conf replace

<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.10.1/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
        Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>

with

<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.10.1/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
        Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
    Allow from ::1
</Directory>

Tested on windows localhost. Note : Please consider RigsFolly's comment also.