A clear explanation from Daniel Irvine:
There's a problem with 401 Unauthorized, the HTTP status code for authentication errors. And that’s just it: it’s for authentication, not authorization.
Receiving a 401 response is the server telling you, “you aren’t
authenticated–either not authenticated at all or authenticated
incorrectly–but please reauthenticate and try again.” To help you out,
it will always include a WWW-Authenticate header that describes how
to authenticate.
This is a response generally returned by your web server, not your web
application.
It’s also something very temporary; the server is asking you to try
again.
So, for authorization I use the 403 Forbidden response. It’s
permanent, it’s tied to my application logic, and it’s a more concrete
response than a 401.
Receiving a 403 response is the server telling you, “I’m sorry. I know
who you are–I believe who you say you are–but you just don’t have
permission to access this resource. Maybe if you ask the system
administrator nicely, you’ll get permission. But please don’t bother
me again until your predicament changes.”
In summary, a 401 Unauthorized response should be used for missing
or bad authentication, and a 403 Forbidden response should be used
afterwards, when the user is authenticated but isn’t authorized to
perform the requested operation on the given resource.
Another nice pictorial format of how http status codes should be used.
Change the file content of c:\wamp\alias\phpmyadmin.conf
to the following.
Note: You should set the Allow
Directive to allow from your local machine for security purposes. The directive Allow from all
is insecure and should be limited to your local machine.
<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.5/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
Here my WAMP installation is in the c:\wamp
folder. Change it according to your installation.
Previously, it was like this:
<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.5/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
Modern versions of Apache 2.2 and up will look for a IPv6 loopback instead of a IPv4 loopback (your localhost).
The real problem is that wamp is binding to an IPv6 address. The fix:
just add Allow from ::1
- Tiberiu-Ionuț Stan
<Directory "c:/wamp22/apps/phpmyadmin3.5.1/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost 127.0.0.1 ::1
</Directory>
This will allow only the local machine to access local apps for Apache.
Restart your Apache server after making these changes.
Best Answer
The access to your Apache server is forbidden from addresses other than
127.0.0.1
inhttpd.conf
(Apache's config file) :The same goes for your PHPMyAdmin access, the config file is
phpmyadmin.conf
:You can set them to allow connections from all IP addresses like follows :