Wamp - Forbidden You don't have permission to access on this server

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All of a sudden I can’t access my local sites via Wamp. So I just did a fresh install thinking that would fix it. NOPE. I did everything suggested in the first few threads on Google. Can anyone help with this?

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Can you provide any detail from the logs or anything else that may help us diagnose the problem? Did you do any recent configuration changes?

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127.0.0.1 localhost
#::1 localhost

Have a look at your HOSTS file, you should see two lines like the above. WAMP doesn’t seem to like it when both are enabled so comment out the ::1 with a # if it’s not already commented out. Depending on what version of windows you’re running you might need to run notepad as an administrator

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Tanks bro! Is that the one located C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts? If so mine currently looks like

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 my-virtual-site1
127.0.0.1 my-virtual-site2

That’s follow this 3 step process http://www.websitecodetutorials.com/code/all-things-www-&-msc-help/wamp-server-how-to-create-virtual-host.php

The local host works but the virtual ones stopped all of a sudden. Which tells me its something with my computer and not wamp. Cuz I didn’t change anything in wamp. So it’s just the virtual ones that don’t work I guess then.

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Were any changes made to your firewall software around the time the virtual ones stopped working?

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no - np changes made by me on my computer. That i know of. Is there a error report I can spit out?

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Check your apache error logs, maybe it is still getting the request, but apache is declining it?

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I just had the same problem. It turns out that my windows is using the IPv6 address ::1 instead of 127.0.0.1. To solve this, I opened httpd.conf and changed the following line:

Allow from 127.0.0.1

to:

Allow from 127.0.0.1 ::1

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I’ll give that a try thanks!

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Others,

IF you install into the Windows protected directories (like (Program Files) or into Users/{any}), it’ll be Windows which is stopping the access. This is easily avoided by NOT installing into the Windows protected directories.

I don’t understand how, if installed with localhost and 127.0.0.1, WAMP would suddenly be using IP6. During installation, be sure you get the server addresses correct!

Regards,

DK