Posted by:
Steve Pitts
(---.9-1.cable.virginmedia.com)
linnea@wuinmind.com Wrote:
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> please guide me through this.
To fix the issue with localhost under Windows 8 giving a 403 error (but working for 127.0.0.1) I did the following:
From the WampServer icon, left click, select Apache > Alias Directories > .../phpmyadmin/ > Edit alias to open the alias configuration file and then changed:
<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.5.1/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
such that the Allow line became:
Allow from 127.0.0.1 ::1
That will fix things for phpmyadmin and if you intend to use SQLbuddy or Webgrind then you'll need to make a similar change to their configuration files. Furthermore, if you've modified the Apache configuration (as I had) then you'll to make a similar change to any localhost Allows in httpd.conf too.