Localhost WAMP Forbidden

Question

I'm having a problem to access my localhost (and finally phpmyadmin) on WAMP.

When I enter localhost or http://127.0.0.1 into my browser, I get the following message:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

I have seen several other posts about that, where people had the same problem of being unable to access their localhost, and the solution was to edit httpd.conf or phpmyadmin.conf. But I have already tried this and I've had no results, It still says I do not have permission.

Answer 1

You probably have another application that is using port 80. It's usually Skype or Teamviewer. If you have one (or both) of those apps, go into their settings and turn off 'use port 80'. It's under advanced settings in both apps if I recall correctly.

If you don't have Skype nor Teamviewer, try finding another application that may be using port 80 and disable it.

To be sure if this is the problem, or if you can't disable port 80 of the other application, try changing WAMP's port to something else, like :8080.

-Edit-
If you're not allowed to access /, but are allowed to access any file, add a .htaccess to the root of your site and add Options +Indexes to that file.

If you're not allowed to access anything, do the same as above, but put this in your .htaccess file:

order allow,deny
allow from all