WAMP 403 Forbidden message on Windows 7

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I have installed WAMP version 2 1 on my windows 7 machine  When i browse to localhost in my browser  the WAMP server page is visible   But when I browse to my IP in my browser  I get the message      403 Forbidden  You don t have permission to access   on this server    Any suggestions

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Another thing I found out is that if your network adapter uses IPV6, it will not show as 127.0.0.1 but ::1

What I ended up doing is this:

<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
    Allow from ::1
</Directory>

The same goes for your PHPMyAdmin access, the config file is phpmyadmin.conf :

<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
        Allow from ::1
</Directory>

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My solution was to disable encoding for encoded files  these files are green in windows   Ive got these files from MAC computer and it was encrypted by default    Ive select these files  gt  right click  gt  properities  gt  general tab  gt  andvanced  gt  uncheck encrypt files     And voila it works

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Try adding the following lines of code to the file httpd-vhosts conf    lt VirtualHost   80 gt  ServerAdmin serveradmin host com DocumentRoot  C  wamp www  ServerName localhost  lt  VirtualHost gt

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I found a simpler fix     Although the icon was green WAMP still needs to be  Put Online   last item of menu when left-clicking icon    After that I had access as normal

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I have tried all the stuff except clearing the mess in  htaccess file   Go to www  directory and make a copy of  htaccess file in another folder  Then clear all the lines in  htaccess original file  And add this line   RewriteEngine On  Then restart the server   This has solved my problem and got access to all my localhost sites  Hope it would solve yours too

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The access to your Apache server is forbidden from addresses other than 127 0 0 1 in httpd conf  Apache s config file      lt Directory  c  wamp www   gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride all     Order Deny Allow     Deny from all     Allow from 127 0 0 1  lt  Directory gt    The same goes for your PHPMyAdmin access  the config file is phpmyadmin conf     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    You can set them to allow connections from all IP addresses like follows    AllowOverride All Order allow deny Allow from all

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hi there are 2 solutions     change the port 80 to 81 in the text file  httpd conf  and click 127 0 0 1 81  change setting the network  go to control panel--network and internet--network and sharing center   click-- local area connection select-- propertis check true in the -allow other       and --- allo other

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There could many causes to this problems  What I have experienced are  1  127 0 0 1       localhost entry was duplicated in hosts file 2  Apache mod rewrite was not enabled  Regardless of the cause  backing up your www folder  vhost configuration file  and httpd configuration file  will help  And such process takes a few minutes   Good luck

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Surprisingly  square brackets in DocumentRoot  and related  like  lt Directory gt   paths can also cause error 403    DocumentRoot  P  TRY web fatfree from github fatfree-master bang   failed with 403  while DocumentRoot  P  TRY web fatfree from github fatfree-master  worked fine     I didn t bother figuring out the Apache path escaping  if any  just renamed the path instead  If anyone knows  comments are welcome

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if you have used localhost phpmyadmin  simply use  127 0 0 1 phpmyadmin  for PHPMyAdmin 127 0 0 1 sqlbuddy  for SQLBuddy  or if you have used localhost 8080 phpmyadmin  then  127 0 0 1 8080 phpmyadmin  for PHPMyAdmin 127 0 0 1 8080 sqlbuddy  for SQLBuddy

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It took me forever to figure this out   C  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 conf extra httpd-vhosts conf  In this file you will notice several example virtual host files  that look like    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerAdmin webmaster dummy-host example com     DocumentRoot  c  Apache24 docs dummy-host example com      ServerName dummy-host example com     ServerAlias www dummy-host example com     ErrorLog  logs dummy-host example com-error log      CustomLog  logs dummy-host example com-access log  common  lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerAdmin webmaster dummy-host2 example com     DocumentRoot  c  Apache24 docs dummy-host2 example com      ServerName dummy-host2 example com     ErrorLog  logs dummy-host2 example com-error log      CustomLog  logs dummy-host2 example com-access log  common  lt  VirtualHost gt    Simply delete these entries and replace with    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerAdmin serveradmin host com     DocumentRoot  C  wamp www      ServerName localhost  lt  VirtualHost gt    You definitely need to make sure your other ducks are in a row but this for me with the solution that worked

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I faced this issue with wamp on windows 7  Adding following code to httpd-vhosts conf solved the issue for me    lt VirtualHost   80 gt    DocumentRoot  F  wamp server www     ServerName localhost  lt  VirtualHost gt

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Make sure you aren t using a Windows  directory separator character  backslash  in your path names in your  conf file  even if you are on Windows  Apache doesn t understand them but will still start up and then output a 403 Forbidden Message   wrong    lt Directory  c  websites my-website   gt    right    lt Directory  c  websites my-website   gt

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This configuration in httpd conf work fine for me    lt Directory  c  wamp www   gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride all     Order Deny Allow     Deny from all     Allow from 127 0 0 1   1  lt  Directory gt

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Thanks for your question  I am using wamp 3 now  And I find an simple answer to do this under your question  But that answer should change a little on wamp 3  The steps are as following    Right click wamp icon Choose Wamp Setting Click the Menu item online offline Left click wamp icon You will find there is a new item called  Put online

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I read  amp  tried All Fixes But Not one worked  At last i Found that the Wamp Server Logo Is Green But Need to Be  PUT ONLINE   So simple  amp  a Quick Fix After Checking Your PHPMyAdmin Cofg  amp  HttPD cofg Just Click on PUT ONLINE

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make sure that  the name of the file in the directory c  wamp apps phpmyadmin3 1 3 1   match the name  or version  in the phpMyAdmin conf  Alias  phpmyadmin  c  wamp apps phpmyadmin3 1 3 1

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For Wamp 3 1 3 and Apache 2 4 I simply had to change 1 line in my httpd-vhosts conf file    Open httpd-vhosts conf  Change  Require local  to  Require all granted  Restart all services   I was then able to get to my apache server from other computers   Give credit to this video  https   www youtube com watch v Sy f6wBGnjI

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I had this problem too   The route of my problem was I had made a mistake in my vhosts conf file   If you are using vhosts this is another thing to check

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Remember to remove dummy elements in httpd-vhosts conf   lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerAdmin webmaster dummy-host example com     DocumentRoot  c  Apache24 docs dummy-host example com      ServerName dummy-host example com     ServerAlias www dummy-host example com     ErrorLog  logs dummy-host example com-error log      CustomLog  logs dummy-host example com-access log  common  lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerAdmin webmaster dummy-host2 example com     DocumentRoot  c  Apache24 docs dummy-host2 example com      ServerName dummy-host2 example com     ErrorLog  logs dummy-host2 example com-error log      CustomLog  logs dummy-host2 example com-access log  common  lt  VirtualHost gt

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The solution for changing the permissions in the httpd conf will work if you are OK with providing access to the WAMP server from outside    If you do not want to do that then all you have to do is tell windows that the  localhost  domain points to 127 0 0 1  You can do that by editing the hosts file in your system directory    The file is placed at   C  Windows System32 drivers etc hosts  by default windows 7 ships with      localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself      127 0 0 1       localhost       1             localhost   You have to un-comment the mapping for localhost     localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself  127 0 0 1       localhost       1         localhost   Note  you will not be able to edit the hosts file as its a read-only file  To edit  you have to be the administrator  copy the file to some other location  edit it and then copy it back to the etc directory   I do not recommend the change of the hosts file  Use the permissions of httpd conf file  use the hosts file approach only if you do not want the server accessed from outside

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I tried the configs above and only this worked for my WAMP Apache 2 4 2 config   For multiple root site without named domains in your Windows hosts file  use http   locahost 8080  http   localhost 8081  http   localhost 8082 and this configuration     ServerName localhost 80 ServerName localhost  Listen 8080 Listen 8081 Listen 8082          lt VirtualHost   8080 gt      DocumentRoot  c  www      ServerName localhost      lt Directory  c  www   gt          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride all         Require local      lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt   lt VirtualHost   8081 gt      DocumentRoot  C  www directory abc svn abc trunk httpdocs      ServerName localhost      lt Directory  C  www directory abc svn abc trunk httpdocs  gt          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride all         Require local      lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   8082 gt  lt  VirtualHost gt

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For Apache version 2 4 x simply replace Require local with Require all granted in httpd conf file inside  lt Directory  c  wamp www   gt  tag then Restart all services

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For me the inclusion of  Require local  helped to solve Error 403  The alias config file looks like this   Alias  mytest   C  mytest      lt Directory  C  mytest   gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews     AllowOverride all         Order allow deny     Allow from all     Require local  lt  Directory gt

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Also on Apache 2 4 you may need to add this to the directory directive in conf  in case you decided to include httpd-vhosts conf   By default you can install wamp in C   but still choose to deploy your web development in another location   To do this inside the vhosts conf you can add this directive    lt Directory  e  websites  gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews     DirectoryIndex index php     AllowOverride All    lt IfDefine APACHE24 gt      Require local    lt  IfDefine gt     lt IfDefine  APACHE24 gt      Order Deny Allow     Allow from all     Allow from localhost   1 127 0 0 1    lt  IfDefine gt   lt  Directory gt

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I have found that if you are using ammps that for some reason its always forbidden when its in your root folder so i put it in the directory above my root folder and made a alias in the httpd conf  using this   Alias  phpmyadmin  C  Program Files  x86  Ampps phpMyAdmin   please note i am using ammps and i dont know for sure if it will work for others but its worth a try

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