Forbidden You don t have permission to access on this server WAMP Error

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I have installed wamp on windows 8 and received above error whenever I go to localhost or phpmyadmin  After much searching I found many answers which includes modifying the httpd conf to Allow from All etc  This link shows such a common answer with further information   My problem is that many have argued that it gives permission to all users to access phpMyAdmin and it is insecure and vulnerable etc  I want to create perfectly secure WAMP server and is it OK if I do this    Can someone please provide me with some reference or information

User · Answer

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

<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>

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:

<Directory "C:/GitHub/head_count/">
    AllowOverride All
    Allow from all
    Require local
</Directory>

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

User · Answer

I find the best  and least frustrating  path is to start with Allow from All  then  when you know it will work that way  scale it back to the more secure Allow from 127 0 0 1 or Allow from   1  localhost     As long as your firewall is configured properly  Allow from all shouldn t cause any problems  but it is better to only allow from localhost if you don t need other computers to be able to access your site    Don t forget to restart Apache whenever you make changes to httpd conf  They will not take effect until the next start   Hopefully this is enough to get you started  there is lots of documentation available online

User · Answer

Adding Allow from All didn t worked for me  Then I tried this and it worked      OS  Windows 8 1Wamp   2 5   I added this in the file C  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 conf extra httpd-vhosts conf   lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerAdmin localhost localhost com     DocumentRoot  c  wamp www       ServerName localhost     ServerAlias localhost     ErrorLog  logs localhost-error log      CustomLog  logs localhost-access log  common  lt  VirtualHost gt

User · Answer

This could be one solution   public class RegisterActivity extends AppCompatActivity        private static final String TAG    RegisterActivity       private static final String URL FOR REGISTRATION    http   192 168 10 4 android login example register php       ProgressDialog progressDialog       private EditText signupInputName  signupInputEmail  signupInputPassword  signupInputAge      private Button btnSignUp      private Button btnLinkLogin      private RadioGroup genderRadioGroup        Override     protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout activity register              Progress dialog         progressDialog   new ProgressDialog this           progressDialog setCancelable false            signupInputName    EditText  findViewById R id signup input name           signupInputEmail    EditText  findViewById R id signup input email           signupInputPassword    EditText  findViewById R id signup input password           signupInputAge    EditText  findViewById R id signup input age            btnSignUp    Button  findViewById R id btn signup           btnLinkLogin    Button  findViewById R id btn link login            genderRadioGroup    RadioGroup  findViewById R id gender radio group           btnSignUp setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener                  Override             public void onClick View view                    submitForm                                      btnLinkLogin setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener                  Override             public void onClick View view                     Intent i   new Intent getApplicationContext   MainActivity class                   startActivity i                                        private void submitForm              int selectedId   genderRadioGroup getCheckedRadioButtonId            String gender          if selectedId    R id female radio btn              gender    Female           else             gender    Male            registerUser signupInputName getText   toString                    signupInputEmail getText   toString                    signupInputPassword getText   toString                    gender                  signupInputAge getText   toString                private void registerUser final String name   final String email  final String password                                final String gender  final String dob               Tag used to cancel the request         String cancel req tag    register            progressDialog setMessage  Adding you                showDialog             StringRequest strReq   new StringRequest Request Method POST                  URL FOR REGISTRATION  new Response Listener lt String gt                    Override             public void onResponse String response                    Log d TAG   Register Response      response toString                     hideDialog                     try                       JSONObject jObj   new JSONObject response                       boolean error   jObj getBoolean  error                         if   error                            String user   jObj getJSONObject  user   getString  name                            Toast makeText getApplicationContext     Hi     user     You are successfully Added    Toast LENGTH SHORT  show                                Launch login activity                         Intent intent   new Intent                                  RegisterActivity this                                  MainActivity class                           startActivity intent                           finish                          else                              String errorMsg   jObj getString  error msg                            Toast makeText getApplicationContext                                    errorMsg  Toast LENGTH LONG  show                                            catch  JSONException e                        e printStackTrace                                                new Response ErrorListener                   Override             public void onErrorResponse VolleyError error                    Log e TAG   Registration Error      error getMessage                     Toast makeText getApplicationContext                            error getMessage    Toast LENGTH LONG  show                    hideDialog                                            Override             protected Map lt String  String gt  getParams                        Posting params to register url                 Map lt String  String gt  params   new HashMap lt String  String gt                     params put  name   name                   params put  email   email                   params put  password   password                   params put  gender   gender                   params put  age   dob                   return params                                      Adding request to request queue         AppSingleton getInstance getApplicationContext    addToRequestQueue strReq  cancel req tag              private void showDialog             if   progressDialog isShowing                progressDialog show               private void hideDialog             if  progressDialog isShowing                progressDialog dismiss

User · Answer

1  first of all Port 80 or what ever you are using  and 443 must be allow for both TCP and UDP packets  To do this  create 2 inbound rules for TPC and UDP on Windows Firewall for port 80 and 443   or you can disable your whole firewall for testing but permanent solution if allow inbound rule  2  If you are using WAMPServer 3 See bottom of answer For WAMPServer versions  lt   2 5 You need to change the security setting on Apache to allow access from anywhere else  so edit your httpd conf file  Change this section from       onlineoffline tag - don t remove      Order Deny Allow      Deny from all      Allow from 127 0 0 1      Allow from   1      Allow from localhost  To       onlineoffline tag - don t remove     Order Allow Deny       Allow from all  if  quot Allow from all quot  line not work for your then use  quot Require all granted quot  then it will work for you  WAMPServer 3 has a different method In version 3 and  gt  of WAMPServer there is a Virtual Hosts pre defined for localhost so dont amend the httpd conf file at all  leave it as you found it  Using the menus  edit the httpd-vhosts conf file   It should look like this    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerName localhost     DocumentRoot D  wamp www      lt Directory   quot D  wamp www  quot  gt          Options  Indexes  FollowSymLinks  MultiViews         AllowOverride All         Require local      lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt   Amend it to  lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerName localhost     DocumentRoot D  wamp www      lt Directory   quot D  wamp www  quot  gt          Options  Indexes  FollowSymLinks  MultiViews         AllowOverride All         Require all granted      lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt   Note if you are running wamp for other than port 80 then VirtualHost will be like VirtualHost   86  86 or port whatever you are using  instead of VirtualHost   80 3  Dont forget to restart All Services of Wamp or Apache after making this change

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