3 solutions for wamp server Error – 403 Forbidden: You don’t have permission to access / on this server apache

We are giving 3 solutions for wamp server Error – 403 Forbidden: You don’t have permission to access / on this server apache.

If you get this Forbidden Error when access Phpmyadmin, Go to this link -> Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server

3 solutions for wamp server Error – 403 Forbidden: You don’t have permission to access / on this server apache

Solution 1:

It’s a Cool Idea. Lot of time this method working as Magic.
Just go to green wamp icon at taskbar.

Left-click that icon. Will get following menu options. There you can select “Put Online”
(last menu item).



Solution 2: in httpd.conf
The access of Apache server is make forbidden from address other than 127.0.0.1 in Apache’s config file (httpd.conf)

<Directory “c:/wamp/www/”>
         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
         AllowOverride all
         Order Deny,Allow
         Deny from all
         Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>

So, You can set that to allow connection from all IP addresses like follow changes:

      AllowOverride All
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all

Solution 3:

For 3rd method, open following file for editing.
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

this above code have to change as following code,

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

All the Best.