New xampp security concept Access Forbidden Error 403 - Windows 7 - phpMyAdmin

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I have downloaded and installed XAMPP 1 8 1 for Windows on Windows 7 Ultimate  I have set up XAMPP to run together with IIS as per these instructions  All good so far  my PHP sites run locally and everything except phpMyAdmin is available from the XAMPP menu   However when I try to access phpMyAdmin I get this error      Access forbidden       New XAMPP security concept       Access to the requested directory is only available from the local   network       This setting can be configured in the file  httpd-xampp conf     I ve found several answers via Google and some on this site  However  so far  none of the solutions I ve tried have resolved the issue   Here is my httpd-xampp conf file       XAMPP settings     lt IfModule env module gt      SetEnv MIBDIRS  C  xampp php extras mibs      SetEnv MYSQL HOME    xampp  mysql  bin      SetEnv OPENSSL CONF  C  xampp apache bin openssl cnf      SetEnv PHP PEAR SYSCONF DIR    xampp  php      SetEnv PHPRC    xampp  php      SetEnv TMP    xampp  tmp   lt  IfModule gt       PHP-Module setup   LoadFile  C  xampp php php5ts dll  LoadModule php5 module  C  xampp php php5apache2 4 dll    lt FilesMatch    php   gt      SetHandler application x-httpd-php  lt  FilesMatch gt   lt FilesMatch    phps   gt      SetHandler application x-httpd-php-source  lt  FilesMatch gt       PHP-CGI setup     lt FilesMatch    php   gt       SetHandler application x-httpd-php-cgi   lt  FilesMatch gt    lt IfModule actions module gt       Action application x-httpd-php-cgi   php-cgi php-cgi exe    lt  IfModule gt     lt IfModule php5 module gt      PHPINIDir  C  xampp php   lt  IfModule gt    lt IfModule mime module gt      AddType text html  php  phps  lt  IfModule gt   ScriptAlias  php-cgi   C  xampp php    lt Directory  C  xampp php  gt      AllowOverride None     Options None     Require all denied      lt Files  php-cgi exe  gt            Require all granted      lt  Files gt   lt  Directory gt    lt Directory  C  xampp cgi-bin  gt       lt FilesMatch    php   gt          SetHandler cgi-script      lt  FilesMatch gt       lt FilesMatch    phps   gt          SetHandler None      lt  FilesMatch gt   lt  Directory gt    lt Directory  C  xampp htdocs xampp  gt       lt IfModule php5 module gt           lt Files  status php  gt              php admin flag safe mode off          lt  Files gt       lt  IfModule gt      AllowOverride AuthConfig  lt  Directory gt    lt IfModule alias module gt      Alias  security  C  xampp security htdocs        lt Directory  C  xampp security htdocs  gt           lt IfModule php5 module gt               lt Files  xamppsecurity php  gt                  php admin flag safe mode off              lt  Files gt           lt  IfModule gt          AllowOverride AuthConfig         Require all granted     lt  Directory gt       Alias  licenses  C  xampp licenses        lt Directory  C  xampp licenses  gt          Options  Indexes          lt IfModule autoindex color module gt              DirectoryIndexTextColor    000000              DirectoryIndexBGColor   f8e8a0              DirectoryIndexLinkColor   bb3902              DirectoryIndexVLinkColor   bb3902              DirectoryIndexALinkColor   bb3902           lt  IfModule gt          Require all granted     lt  Directory gt       Alias  phpmyadmin  C  xampp phpMyAdmin        lt Directory  C  xampp phpMyAdmin  gt          AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit         Order allow deny         Allow from all         Require all granted      lt  Directory gt       Alias  webalizer  C  xampp webalizer        lt Directory  C  xampp webalizer  gt           lt IfModule php5 module gt               lt Files  webalizer php  gt                  php admin flag safe mode off              lt  Files gt           lt  IfModule gt          AllowOverride AuthConfig         Require all granted      lt  Directory gt   lt  IfModule gt       New XAMPP security concept    lt LocationMatch      i    xampp security licenses phpmyadmin webalizer server-status server-info    gt      Order deny allow     Allow from all     Require all granted      ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var  lt  LocationMatch gt    Does anyone have any idea as to what I m missing

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For many it s a permission issue  but for me it turns out the error was brought about by a mistake in the form I was trying to submit  To be specific i had accidentally put     sign after the value of  action   So I would suggest you take a second look at your code

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Try to reinstall new version of XAMPP  Find   lt Directory  C  xampp php  gt   and then change to something like this   lt Directory  C  xampp php  gt      AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit     Order allow deny     Allow from all     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt

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A reason for this could be Skype as well  If you use the default XAMPP settings  they both would run on the same port  80   You can    Turn off Skype Change the XAMPP port

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To access the requested directory other than local network  you need to change the XAMPP security concept configured in the file  httpd-xampp conf     File location xampp apache conf extra httpd-xampp conf      Require Directive Selects which authenticated users can access a resource      Syntax    Require entity-name  entity-name        From    XAMPP security concept allows only local environment - Require local     lt LocationMatch      i    xampp security licenses phpmyadmin webalizer server-status server-info    gt          Require local     ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var  lt  LocationMatch gt      To    XAMPP security concept allows any environment - Require all granted     lt LocationMatch      i    xampp security licenses phpmyadmin webalizer server-status server-info    gt          Require all granted     ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var  lt  LocationMatch gt        Access forbidden  message from HTML Page          Allow Directive Controls which hosts can access an area of the server      Syntax    Allow from all host env    env-variable  host env    env-variable        Allowing only local environment  Using any of the below specified url s    http   localhost phpmyadmin  http   127 0 0 1 phpmyadmin      lt LocationMatch      i    xampp security licenses phpmyadmin webalizer server-status server-info    gt      Order deny allow     Deny from all     Allow from   1 127 0 0 0 8        ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var  lt  LocationMatch gt       Allowing only to specified IPv4  IPv6 address spaces    Link-local addresses for IPv4 are defined in the address block 169 254 0 0 16 in CIDR notation  In IPv6  they are assigned the address block fe80   10 A unique local address  ULA  is an IPv6 address in the block fc00   7     lt LocationMatch      i    xampp security licenses phpmyadmin webalizer server-status server-info    gt      Order deny allow     Deny from all     Allow from   1 127 0 0 0 8           fc00   7 10 0 0 0 8 172 16 0 0 12 192 168 0 0 16           fe80   10 169 254 0 0 16      ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var  lt  LocationMatch gt       Allowing for any network address  Allow from all     lt LocationMatch      i    xampp security licenses phpmyadmin webalizer server-status server-info    gt      Order deny allow     Allow from all      ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var  lt  LocationMatch gt        404 - XAMPP Control Panel  Unable to start Apache HTTP server     URL  http   localhost xampp index php  Error         Not Found     HTTP Error 404  The requested resource is not found      Required default Apache HTTP server port 80 is actually used by other Service     You need to find the service running with port 80 and stop the service  then start the Apache HTTP server   Use Netstat to displays active TCP connections  ports on which the computer is listening      C  Users yashwanth m gt netstat -ano    Active Connections    Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State           PID   TCP    0 0 0 0 80             0 0 0 0 0              LISTENING       2920   TCP    0 0 0 0 135            0 0 0 0 0              LISTENING       1124    TCP    127 0 0 1 5354         0 0 0 0 0              LISTENING       3340    TCP         80                     0                 LISTENING       2920  C  Users yashwanth m gt netstat -ano  findstr 2920   TCP    0 0 0 0 80             0 0 0 0 0              LISTENING       2920   TCP    0 0 0 0 443            0 0 0 0 0              LISTENING       2920   TCP         80                     0                 LISTENING       2920   TCP         443                    0                 LISTENING       2920  C  Users yashwanth m gt taskkill  pid 2920  F   SUCCESS  The process with PID 2920 has been terminated       Change listening port from main Apache HTTP server configuration file D  xampp apache conf httpd conf  Ex  81  From Listen 80 To Listen 81  the access URL will be http   localhost 81 xampp index php       Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to    prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses     Listen 0 0 0 0 80  Listen      80 Listen 80      For more information related to httpd and virtual host on XAMPP

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lt LocationMatch      i    xampp security licenses phpmyadmin webalizer server-status server-info    gt           Require all granted     ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var  lt  LocationMatch gt    Good luck

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Ubuntu  Linux   -   sudo gedit  opt lampp etc extra httpd-xampp conf  Comment  quot Deny from all quot  in the following section   Change file    New XAMPP security concept    lt LocationMatch  quot     i    xampp security licenses phpmyadmin webalizer server-status server-info   quot  gt      Order deny allow      Deny from all     Require local     Allow from   1 127 0 0 0 8               fc00   7 10 0 0 0 8 172 16 0 0 12 192 168 0 0 16               fe80   10 169 254 0 0 16      ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var

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Update for XAMPP 7 3   If you get into same problem for phpmyadmin in the newest XAMPP  as I had  The solution is written inside the official documentation located in  XAMPP IP  dashboard docs access-phpmyadmin-remotely html  To enable remote access to phpMyAdmin from other hosts  follow these steps     Launch the stack manager by double-clicking the XAMPP icon in the mounted disk image      Ensure that Apache and MySQL services are running in the  quot Services quot  tab of the stack manager  or start them as needed       Open a new terminal from the  quot General quot  tab of the stack manager      Edit the  opt lampp etc extra httpd-xampp conf file      Within this file  find the block  lt Directory  quot  opt lampp phpmyadmin quot  gt   Update this block and replace Require local with Require all granted   Save the file and restart the Apache service using the stack manager    Note for section  4  To edit this file make sure you have vim installed  Note for section  5  Instead of allowing access to all  which is highly insecure  if your computer is connected to a network  A safer approach is to limit the access to only set of IPs as suggested by  Gunnar Bernstein  In my case I did   lt Directory  quot  opt lampp phpmyadmin quot  gt    AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit   Require local   Require ip 192 168   ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var  lt  Directory gt

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This could be because of wrong configuration  esp if your other sites are working fine    lt VirtualHost cmsdemo git 88 gt      DocumentRoot  C  Projects rwp       ServerName cmsdemo git      lt Directory C  Projects cmsdemo  gt          Require all granted          AllowOverride All      lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt    Notice in DocumentRoot I am specifying one folder and in Directory  I am specifying another hence 403 Error  This fixed my problem

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All you have to do is to edit the httpd-xampp conf  from Require local to Require all granted in the LocationMatch tag   That s it

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G  xampp apache conf extra httpd-vhosts conf    start block NameVirtualHost   80   lt VirtualHost   80 gt     ServerName localhost     change your directory name    DocumentRoot  G  xampp htdocs   lt  VirtualHost gt    Your vertual Host  lt VirtualHost   80 gt      DocumentRoot  G  xampp htdocs dev2018 guessbook      ServerName dev foreign-recruitment      lt Directory  G  xampp htdocs dev2018 guessbook   gt        lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt   end block

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Require all granted seemed a bit to far for me  Looking at the documentation I used  Require ip 192 168 to allow all internal access    lt LocationMatch      i    xampp security licenses phpmyadmin webalizer server-status server-info    gt      Require local     Require ip 192 168     ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var  lt  LocationMatch gt

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I tried everything but nothing worked  So I just used   chmod -R 777 to htdocs  At least it s only in my local

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for anyone having problems when using xampp and IIS using windows    check the xamp panel on apache  which port is using  Let assume apache is using port 81 then try this  http   127 0 0 1 81    for me worked like charm  it might help someone in future

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You will have to edit 2 files - 1  httpd-vhosts conf  amp  2  httpd-xampp conf     NOTE   Make sure u  backup files   httpd-xampp conf   and     httpd-vhosts conf     Both Files are located in   Drive  xampp apache conf extra   Open httpd-vhosts conf file and in the bottom of the file change it   lt VirtualHost   80 gt  DocumentRoot    E  xampp htdocs     ServerName localhost  lt Directory E  xampp htdocs  gt   Require all granted   lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt    Here E  xampp is my project workspace  you can change it as per your settings   and Second Change is on httpd-xampp conf file and in the bottom of the file change it      New XAMPP security concept    lt LocationMatch        i    xampp security licenses phpmyadmin webalizer server-status server-info      gt  Order deny allow Allow from all Allow from   1 127 0 0 0 8 ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var  lt  LocationMatch gt

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just remove   Alias  phpmyadmin  C  xampp2 phpMyAdmin    lt Directory  C  xampp2 phpMyAdmin  gt      AllowOverride AuthConfig     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt    and remove phpmyadmin from    lt LocationMatch      i    xampp security licenses phpmyadmin server-status server-info    gt

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If you re using a newer XAMPP  for example for PHP 5 6  7  which is built with  Bitnami  installer and it includes Apache 2 4 x then this applies   https   httpd apache org docs 2 4 upgrading html run-time     2 2 configuration    Order allow deny Allow from all      2 4 configuration    Require all granted   This also applies to VirtualHost sections  if you have any custom virtualhost definitions

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In your xampppath apache conf extra open file httpd-xampp conf and find the below tag    lt LocationMatch      i    xampp licenses phpmyadmin webalizer server-status server-info    gt  Order deny allow Deny from all Allow from   1 127 0 0 0 8  ErrorDocument 403    error HTTP XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var        and add Allow from all after Allow from   1 127 0 0 0 8  line   Restart xampp  and you are done

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Some of the Answers are correct  but in case of working with new xampp or with some one not working other answers try this   just go to the xampp folder       xampp apache conf extra httpd-xampp c  onf   and if you are trying to access from local ip in your network so change     Alias  phpmyadmin  C  xampp phpMyAdmin        lt Directory  C  xampp phpMyAdmin  gt          AllowOverride AuthConfig         Require local         ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var      lt  Directory gt    Change to     Alias  phpmyadmin  C  xampp phpMyAdmin        lt Directory  C  xampp phpMyAdmin  gt          AllowOverride AuthConfig         Require all granted         ErrorDocument 403  error XAMPP FORBIDDEN html var      lt  Directory gt    Note  this is just for text  for the security of the xampp has some search

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In New Xampp  All you have to do is to edit the file      C  xampp apache conf extra httpd-xampp conf   and go to Directory tag as below       lt Directory  C  xampp phpMyAdmin  gt    and then change      Require local   To     Require all granted   in the Directory tag   Restart the Xampp  That s it

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Comment out the line Require local in httpd-xampp conf  Restart Apache  Worked for me connecting my mobile phone to my test web-site on my PC  No idea of the security implications

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