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Having a bit of trouble accessing the localhost. phpmyadmin works fine but it comes up with a 403 when trying to access the local host. Any ideas what this might be?

sounds you have htaccess file in www folder

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what does that mean?

You need to register it admittance to the desired IP like this:

Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from your.ip.adr.here

or

Order deny,allow
Allow from all

or

remove. Htaccess file

The order deny,allow thing didnt do anything.

I had a similar issue on vista a while back but I can't remember how fixed it. Probably the same issue on my new win7 install.

any other ideas?

this is weird. Just loaded up XP that was working fine and I'm getting the same problem. Same machine, just swapped a HDD. Whay can't things just work!

just had another go at this. Narrowed down the problem to the setup of a virtual host. I've got one virtual host setup that, when commented out in httpd, allows wamp to access localhost. When I take away the comments it comes up with the 403.

This is a windows 7 system so I don't know if the UAC has anything to do with it. I've run WAMP as admin but still ge tthe problem. Is there a perticular way of setting up virtual hosts in win7?

to setup VH, follow this
[blog.jlbn.net]

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I managed to get it going by doing the classic solution. Uninstall and start from scratch.

Only issue I have now is that when clicking localhost in the wamp menu it takes me to my vhost and not the usual wamp localhost page.

Probably something simple, any ideas?

Open services.msc and stop the following services:

Virtual Server
IIS Admin

I have Microsoft Virtual Server installed and I received the 401 error upon clicking Localhost on the WAMP menu. Since stopping the above services the problem has gone. I would have to keep stopping these services when I reboot until I remove Virtual Server.

Chris

IIS and Apache/Wamp are both web server and might conflict in some way, so you have to disable IIS in order for Wamp to work

Disable IIS in Vista/W7:

Control Panel, Uninstall Programs, Turn Widows Features On or Off, uncheck Internet Information Services

Disable IIS in XP:

Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows Components, uncheck Internet Information Services (IIS)

Restart computer, then restart Wamp

Also, in folder C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc, open file hosts and delete anything in this file and have only this line below and nothing else

127.0.0.1 localhost

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