WampServer

Hello all, thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.

I am receiving a 403 Forbidden error on localhost/ but not on localhost/phpmyadmin

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I have WampServer2 on a Windows XP machine. I work on a network and have Administrative rights assigned for the entire Wamp folder and I have both of these services (wampapache and wampmysqld) started and running automatically. My WampServer Icon is still red, even after restarting. I also tried putting the server online--to no avail.

What is confusing me is that i am able to access: localhost/phpmyadmin, but not localhost or any of my virtual hosts (e.g. test.localhost or localhost/test).

What could possibly be causing this error?

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I have my hosts file configured:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 test.localhost

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I have my vhosts file included and configured:
(un-commented line 466 of C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\conf\httpd.conf)

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@form.localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/test"
ServerName test.localhost
ErrorLog "logs/test-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/test-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

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I do not have IIS or Skype running or anything that appears to be conflicting with port 80.

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Windows Firewall is turned off...
Symantec is installed on this machine...
Am I getting stuck behind the firewall? If so, then why would I be able to access localhost/phpmyadmin but not localhost or test.localhost?

I've setup WAMP numerous numerous times, but am dead in the water on this one.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,
~dale



Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 05/13/2011 03:05PM by dalebrendan.

I seem to have fixed this problem... I changed my entry in my vhost file from:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@form.localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/test"
ServerName test.localhost
ErrorLog "logs/test-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/test-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

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to:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName test.localhost
DocumentRoot c:/wamp/www/test
ErrorLog "logs/test-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/test-access.log" common

<directory c:/wamp/www/test>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</directory>
</VirtualHost>

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I am now able to: echo 'hello world'; and it appears to be functioning. ...more then likely I will run into some other obscure error. If I do and as I do, I will repost in this thread.

Hope this helps some other lost soul.

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My WampServer icon is still RED though, by the way, but am assuming that is because I am starting these services automatically when my machine boots and they are not being turned on by WAMP. Just a hunch. I don't much care about the color of the icon as long as it works.

Thanks again--best,
~dale



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/13/2011 03:17PM by dalebrendan.

So peculiar...

I setup a second virtual host:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName site2.localhost
DocumentRoot c:/wamp/www/site2
ErrorLog "logs/site2-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/site2-access.log" common

<directory c:/wamp/www/site2>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</directory>
</VirtualHost>

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and set my hosts file:
127.0.0.1 site2.localhost

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...and restarted WAMP server
...and get a 403 forbidden on this site, but the first one, the test one, works fine...

Will just continue commenting on my own thread, hoping that it will help someone down the road...

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Haha! Of course the new virtual host won't work you idiot (me). The IT guy set my services to start automatically when I turn my machine on... I don't have administrative rights to turn them on and off. Hence, when I tried to do a restart using using the WAMP gui, it didn't do anything.

...actually have to reboot my machine to get those services to restart. haha. I can live with that for the time being.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/13/2011 04:11PM by dalebrendan.

To run a web server, you must have admin full privilege and since you reply on IT which cause all those issues, afraid your posts are not really helping anybody; recommend to run on your own PC, not Company's ones

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