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So I recently went on vacation and when I returned my brother had uninstalled WAMP... So naturally I came here, downloaded the installer, ran it, then checked to make sure that it was working by going to [localhost] But when I went to localhost I received this error message,

403 Forbidden
Forbidden

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

Any ideas why I am getting this? I know I have admin permissions and such. But I am not sure if suddenly the port it needs is taken or something. Any ideas? How would I check the ports? using CMD.exe doesn't work for me. I am running on a Windows 2000. Thanks in advanced. Also, making sure my MySQL tables and such is not important to me, I just need WAMP installed correctly...

1.) uninstall wamp
2.) totally delete the c:\wamp folder
3.) restart computer
4.) downlaod and reinstall wamp again.

just dont forget to backup your website data from your c:\wamp\www folder. also if you have any data stored in a mysql database, you will need to use phpmyadmins export feature to export your database. then when you reinstall wamp, put your website files back into c:\wamp\www and then use phpmyadmins import feature to import your mysql data.



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Nope.. It didn't work I still get a,

Forbidden

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

I uninstalled ALL of wamp. I deleted anything that had to do with WAMP, then I restarted my computer, then installed WAMP... I can't think of anything else to try. Can anyone else?

make sure you have started apache.





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Yup... Its started. I did a "Check Port 80" from the Apache menu and this is what was show:

Your port 80 is actually used by :

Server: Apache /2.2.4 (Win32) PHP/5.2.1

Is that what I should be seeing?

For some reason, you're not the only one have problem w/ wamp 1.7.0 on w2k, so you might consider to switch back to 1.6.6 or 1.6.5 or upgrade w2k to xp or vista ;-)

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Post Edited (03-16-07 13:58)

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yo.

I had the same problem.
After putting wamp online it works.
As of the forum, localhost should work also offline.
Does not for me :/

Wamp is not broken,
The issue is by default Apache as of 2.2.0, deny's all access to anything but it's default root directory.

modify your httpd.conf to not deny all for Directory /

eg...
<Directory />
Allow from all
Deny from none
</Directory>

or something similar

FYI,



- Ace Macleod -
[www.bandxusa.com]

if your server is in offline mode, wamp is setup to only work using localhost. if you are in online mode, wamp uses your ip address.


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