WAMP 403 Forbidden message on Windows 7

Question

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?

Answer 1

The access to your Apache server is forbidden from addresses other than 127.0.0.1 in httpd.conf (Apache's config file) :

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

You can set them to allow connections from all IP addresses like follows :

AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all 

Answer 2

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.