Posted by:
MikeSD
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First, I'm running WAMP Server on a Vista system.
I installed the latest version of WAMP server yesterday and the default installation worked perfectly. Apache worked, I could access files in www. PHP seemed to work and Php info came up. I tried PHPMyAdmin and it worked fine. I even created a database and a table. This all worked, if I used [
localhost]
However, nothing was accessible from the internet. After a bit of checking I found that (I believe) I need to change the "Listen 80" configuration setting, to another port. So I selected 8080 and set port forwarding.
I also changed "ServerName" to my actual external IP address.
After restarting all services, everything is back to the way it was except that now I get
"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server.", when I try to access PHPMyAdmin.
Those changes just mentioned are the only changes I made to the default install.
1) Should everything work proplerly with only those two changes I made, after install? Or was there something I missed.
2) What is the preferable port to use with Vista?
3) Why am I getting the "Forbidden" error when I try to access PHPMyAdmin? The alias file has " Allow from 127.0.0.1". I have no idea what the significance of this is. what should it be?
4) WAMP was a clean install but there isn't much documentation that I can find on configurations. Can someone point me to a good source of documentaton for configuration?