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

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I am new to WAMP and I have just installed it today   The setup went well and localhost seems to work  but when I try to access phpMyAdmin I get this error      Forbidden   You don t have permission to access  phpmyadmin  on this server    Why do I get this permission access error with phpMyAdmin    I am using Windows 7

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In my case  the problem was that the phpMyAdmin version was specified wrongly in the phpmyadmin conf file  You may check that     Go to wamp apps phpmyadmin3 x x  notice the file name - what version you are currently using   Open file wamp alias phpmyadmin conf         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews     AllowOverride all         Order Deny Allow         Allow from all    Check the first line  directory  c  wamp apps phpmyadmin3 x x    is the file name exactly the same as your actual file name   Make sure the directory file name is absolutely correct

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Change   Listen 80    to   Listen 127 0 0 1 80    in your httpd conf file  It will bind Apache to a specific IP address and port

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Change the file content of c  wamp alias phpmyadmin conf to the following   Note  You should set the Allow Directive to allow from your local machine for security purposes  The directive Allow from all is insecure and should be limited to your local machine    lt Directory  c  wamp apps phpmyadmin3 4 5   gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews     AllowOverride all         Order Deny Allow         Allow from all  lt  Directory gt    Here my WAMP installation is in the c  wamp folder  Change it according to your installation   Previously  it was like this    lt Directory  c  wamp apps phpmyadmin3 4 5   gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews     AllowOverride all         Order Deny Allow     Deny from all     Allow from 127 0 0 1  lt  Directory gt    Modern versions of Apache 2 2 and up will look for a IPv6 loopback instead of a IPv4 loopback  your localhost        The real problem is that wamp is binding to an IPv6 address  The fix    just add Allow from   1 - Tiberiu-Ionu  Stan    lt Directory  c  wamp22 apps phpmyadmin3 5 1   gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews     AllowOverride all         Order Deny Allow     Deny from all     Allow from localhost 127 0 0 1   1  lt  Directory gt    This will allow only the local machine to access local apps for Apache   Restart your Apache server after making these changes

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For Apache 2 4 2 the solution is   in httpd conf on line 265 change Require none to Require all granted  That s all

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I fixed that problem before  It can happen due to many reasons  so you can use some or all of the next steps  opening mentioned files using any text editor  like Notepad      If you install WAMP in C  wamp   1- Open file C  wamp bin apache apache2 2 22 conf httpd conf  Note  you may have a different Apache version than Apache 2 2 22  so you need to write it instead   Search for  Directory  C  wamp www    You will find something similar to this    lt Directory  C  wamp www   gt       maybe there is some comments here         AllowOverride all     Order Allow Deny     Allow from all  lt  Directory gt    Be sure that Allow from all is exists and not outcommented   2- Open file C  wamp alias phpmyadmin conf   Make sure that    lt Directory  C  wamp apps phpmyadmin3 5 1   gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews     AllowOverride all         Order Deny Allow     Deny from all     Allow from 127 0 0 1    lt  Directory gt    Change Allow from 127 0 0 1 to Allow from all   You can remove Deny from all or comment it out by adding   at the beginning of the line  but you have to make sure that Allow from all is the last line of code just before  lt  Directory gt    Note  you may have a different version than phpMyAdmin 3 5 1   To use localhost phpmyadmin instead of 127 0 0 1 phpmyadmin   Open file C  wamp bin apache apache2 2 22 conf extra httpd-vhosts conf  Add the following at the end of it    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      DocumentRoot  C  wamp www      ServerName localhost  lt  VirtualHost gt

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you can access through      http   127 0 0 1 PortNumber    if you don t want to change config files

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The simple solution to this would be to find phpmyadmin conf file and then find below code inside it    lt Directory  c  wamp apps phpmyadmin3 5 1   gt   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews  AllowOverride all      Order Deny Allow  Deny from all  Allow from 127 0 0 1   lt  Directory gt    Change  Deny from all  to  Allow from all     OR   Follow below link to get better understanding on how to do it   WAMP says Forbidden You don t have permission to access  phpmyadmin  on this server Windows 7 or 8  Enjoy

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I tried to set up my password    And that s how I got locked out from localhost  They should fix this     Anyway  be careful with random advice  They all may or may not work  But some advice will lock you out even further  The one that worked for me   Type  http   127 0 0 1 phpmyadmin   in the address bar    Then I discovered that http   localhost phpmyadmin  also works    However  before that  out of desperation I had      I deleted the files  I uninstalled WAMP  deleted temporary cookies  and installed WAMP again  It still doesn t accept  localhost   and I am tired after a day trying to access WAMP   but the 127 0 0 1 and the localhost phpmy    work  I am happy to see the page back  And start working again   If you read this thread all the way to here means you are probably in a big problem    Windows 8  WAMP  wampserver 2 2   I wonder what it needs to get back access to localhost

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The reason might be 127 0 0 1 is not linked to localhost  Check your  C  Windows System32 drivers etc hosts  file  It should have a line like this     localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself  127 0 0 1       localhost

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I had commented out the   1 line in my hosts file

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If you re using WAMP with Apache 2 4 2 or greater  you need to use Require all instead of Allow and remove Order Deny Allow    lt Directory  f  Projects myproject www   gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews     AllowOverride all     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt     as stated in this blog post

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Check if you are logged in as root or user with privileges  Just to be sure  logout and login again with root no-password

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In WAMP 3 1 4 x64 I solved updating the file C  wamp64 alias phpmyadmin conf from this   Alias  phpmyadmin  c  wamp64 apps phpmyadmin4 8 3     lt Directory  c  wamp64 apps phpmyadmin4 8 3   gt      Options  Indexes  FollowSymLinks  MultiViews   AllowOverride all    lt ifDefine APACHE24 gt          Require local      lt  ifDefine gt       lt ifDefine  APACHE24 gt          Order Deny Allow     Deny from all     Allow from localhost   1 127 0 0 1      lt  ifDefine gt     To import big file you can increase values   php admin value upload max filesize 128M   php admin value post max size 128M   php admin value max execution time 360   php admin value max input time 360  lt  Directory gt    to this   Alias  phpmyadmin  c  wamp64 apps phpmyadmin4 8 3     lt Directory  c  wamp64 apps phpmyadmin4 8 3   gt      Options  Indexes  FollowSymLinks  MultiViews   AllowOverride all     Require all granted    To import big file you can increase values   php admin value upload max filesize 128M   php admin value post max size 128M   php admin value max execution time 360   php admin value max input time 360  lt  Directory gt    And finally restarting all WAMP services

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In my case  using Wampserver 3 64bit version 3 0 0  the path to the phpmyadmin4 5 2 directory in the phpmyadmin conf file was wrong  For some reason the apps directory is inside the scripts directory  So I entered the correct paths as shown below  Then you probably need to restart Apache and reload the page   I changed   Alias  phpmyadmin  C  wamp64 apps phpmyadmin4 5 2     lt Directory  C  wamp64 apps phpmyadmin4 5 2   gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews   AllowOverride all     Require local    To import big file you can increase values   php admin value upload max filesize 128M   php admin value post max size 128M   php admin value max execution time 360   php admin value max input time 360  lt  Directory gt    To   Alias  phpmyadmin  C  wamp64 scripts apps phpmyadmin4 5 2     lt Directory  C  wamp64 scripts apps phpmyadmin4 5 2   gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews   AllowOverride all     Require local    To import big file you can increase values   php admin value upload max filesize 128M   php admin value post max size 128M   php admin value max execution time 360   php admin value max input time 360  lt  Directory gt

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If you are on Windows 7 or 8 then Apache might be seeing the connections coming from    1  which is the IPv6 equivalent of 127 0 0 1   You can check this by looking in the Apache Access Log  reachable from the WAMP menu     1 - -  20 Dec 2012 21 35 04  0000   GET  phpmyadmin  HTTP 1 1  403 213   The   1 at the start is the clients address  The 403 at the end is the Access Denied code   The answers above will remove all restrictions and open phpmyadmin to all  but if you still want to restrict phpmyadmin to your machine only  generally a good idea  then under the line     Allow from 127 0 0 1     add the following   Allow from   1    edit  Added suggestion from Nukeface

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I just had the same problem  It turns out that my installation of Windows is using the IPv6 address   1 instead of 127 0 0 1  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   Now I can access the server through localhost  Whatever you do  don t remove the Deny from all from the line above  or anyone on your network can gain access to your web server  unless that s what you want of course

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You have to just check whether your WAMP server is online or not   To put your WAMP server online  follow these steps    Go to your WAMP server notification icon  in the task bar   Single click on the WAMP server icon  Select last option from the menu  that is  Put Online Your server will restart automatically  in the latest versions only   Otherwise  you have to restart your server manually    And you are DONE

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Even I faced the same issue with my domain  If I gave an IP address it was working  But with a domain name it was not   Then I checked my DNS A record  The domain had multiple entries with different IP addresses assigned  I removed all the wrong values  and it worked  Just one more check list if anyone faces a similar issue

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In the newest version of WAMP I somehow had a  deny all  in my  htaccess file  If nothing else works  please check there too

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I wanted to run my server online and not under localhost   127 0 0 1 and had the forbidden message  I am running the WAMP 2 2 server  Apache 2 4 2   PHP 5 4 3   MySQL 5 5 24  on Windows 7 64 bit  What worked for me is the following    Press the startup WAMP icon in the menu Choose Apache folder Choose the file httpd conf Under the Directory tab section  section with    Online --  Require all granted  text   I had the  Require local  option which I changed to  Require all granted  Restart all services of the WAMP   Again  it worked for me and from this thread I understand that there are many cases in which you may get the above error message so if mine does not work  try other solutions   Good luck    I hope it helps someone like it helped me  I did not find any one of the solutions above working for me

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I found that using localhost would not work properly to allow local access from the server   I had to use 127 0 0 1   In phpmyadmin conf this did not work   Deny from all Allow from localhost   this did work   Deny from all Allow from 127 0 0 1   I am using WampServer Version 2 2

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Everyting I have tried  Finally I understood it was problem with the port change  So given proper port in httpd-vhosts conf If anybody going though same problem  will be helpful   lt VirtualHost   9999 gt      ServerName localhost     DocumentRoot c  wamp64 www      lt Directory   quot c  wamp64 www  quot  gt          Options  Indexes  Includes  FollowSymLinks  MultiViews         AllowOverride All          require all granted      lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt

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If your WAMP icon is not green try  Left Click WAMP Icon   MySQL   Services   Install Service

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What was going on with my setup was that WAMP was binding to an IPv6 Address  and every subsequent time I reinstalled WAMP     To fix this  I went into c  wamp alias phpmyadmin conf and added the line Allow from   1

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Just edit the file  c  wamp alias phpmyadmin conf   like this   lt Directory  C  wamp64 apps phpmyadmin4 5 5 1   gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews      AllowOverride All     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt

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Just use 127 0 0 1 instead of localhost  no changes to the configuration file are required    System    Windows 7 wampserver2 2d-x64   This works   http   127 0 0 1 phpmyadmin    This one fails   http   localhost phpmyadmin

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For Apache 2 4 2   In httpd conf   Change  Require local   to  Require all granted

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replace localhost with 127 0 0 1 in your URL  worked for me

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If WampServer works in the computer it is installed but not on another device in your network  e g   from your phone  with the  You don t have permission to access  on this server   try the following   1  Edit the httpd-vhosts conf  C  wamp64 bin apache apache2 4 33 conf extra httpd-vhosts conf   so it looks like this    lt Directory    INSTALL DIR  www   gt      Options  Indexes  Includes  FollowSymLinks  MultiViews     AllowOverride All     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt    2  Edit the phpmyadmin conf  C  wamp64 alias phpmyadmin conf   so it looks like this    lt Directory  d  wamp64 apps phpmyadmin4 7 9   gt      Options  Indexes  FollowSymLinks  MultiViews     AllowOverride all         Order Deny Allow         Allow from all         Require all granted   3  Restart WampServer services

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So all of these answers are basically the same one  They only address one idea  it has to be DNS related  Well  that is not the only part of this it turns out  After many changes  I was getting nowhere reading the next  same answer  hoping that it would just go my way   What did the trick for me was to adjust my versions of Apache  I think what the deal was  is that the one of the configuration files get a path off or that the install due to IIS may have been messed up   or   or  etc  And so forcing a version change readdresses everything from your firewall to bad configurations     In fact  when I switched back to Apache 2 4 2 it goes back to being a forbidden  And as soon as I go back to Apache 2 4 4 it comes back up  That rules out local network issues   I just wanted to point out that all of the answers here are the same and that I have been able to kill the forbidden by changing the Apache version

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1 change D  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 conf httpd conf near line 279  Require local    into   Require all granted   2 change like this in D  wamp alias phpmyadmin conf from existing one      lt Directory  d  wamp apps phpmyadmin4 1 14   gt         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews        AllowOverride all        Require all granted        Order Deny Allow        Allow from all     lt  Directory gt    3 Click to Restart All services in wamp   4 Click put online in wamp   5 Again Click to Restart All services in wamp   Hope it Helps

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after making your alias in wamp server follow this steps     1- open wamp installation folder and open alias folder such as c  wamp alias  2- open phpMyAdmin conf  3- change Require local to Require all granted  4- save file  5- for your aliases   open your alias config file such as test conf in same folder  6- copy all content of Directory tag in phpMyAdmin conf that are something such as below     lt Directory  c  wamp apps phpmyadmin4 1 14   gt     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews    AllowOverride all    lt IfDefine APACHE24 gt      Require all granted    lt  IfDefine gt     lt IfDefine  APACHE24 gt      Order Deny Allow       Deny from all       Allow from localhost   1 127 0 0 1       Allow from localhost      lt  IfDefine gt    php admin value upload max filesize 128M   php admin value post max size 128M   php admin value max execution time 360   php admin value max input time 360  lt  Directory gt    8-in your alias config file paste number 5 copied texts instead of Directory tag   9- restart your apachi server by clicking on restart all services    that worked for me

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In my case a WAMP server was installed before on my pc  so when installing the new one some files not overwritten  all you have to do in that case is to go to the C   and delete the whole WAMP folder then install it again

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I had the same problem  The hosts file is corrupted  there were   localhos 127 0 0 1  localhost 127 0 0 1  localhos 127 0 0 1 localhos 127 0 0 1   The result is that localhost is not defined   Solution  edit the hosts file with admin rights and correct to only one entry   localhost 127 0 0 1

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