FAQ: How to fix error 403: access forbidden for phpmyadmin in wampserver?

Posted By Vijay Joshi May 26, 2009
7 comments

The Problem:

PhpMyadmin works fine on localhost but accessing it over a network gives error 403: Access Forbidden.

Reason:

Reason is pretty clear – phpmyadmin is not configured to be accessed over a network. Permission to access it over network is not given.

Solution:

Locate the file phpmyadmin.conf in your wamp installation. If you have wampserver version 2 or higher, this file can be found at C:\wamp\alias\phpmyadmin.conf (Of course assuming that you installed wamp in C:\wamp). For earlier wamp versions this file is at C:\wamp\Apache2\conf\alias\phpmyadmin.conf.
Once found,open this file. Contents of the file will be like the following:

Alias /phpmyadmin "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.1.3.1/"
# to give access to phpmyadmin from outside
# replace the lines
#
#        Order Deny,Allow
#	Deny from all
#	Allow from 127.0.0.1
#
# by
#
#        Order Allow,Deny
#   Allow from all
#
 
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
        Order Deny,Allow
	Deny from all
	Allow from 127.0.0.1

As it is clearly written in the file itself, replace the line Deny from all (second line from the bottom )with Allow from all. Save the file, restart apache and you are done.

PhpMyadmin can be accessed from outside now.

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