WAMP 403 Forbidden message on Windows 8 - php

I have installed WAMP on my windows 8 machine. When i browse to localhost in my browser, the WAMP server page is visible.
But when I browse to my IP in my browser, I get the message
403 Forbidden: You don't have permission to access / on this server.
i downloaded wamp server from this page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wampserver/
and in C:\wamp\alias phpmyadmin file
Alias /phpmyadmin "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.5.1/"
# 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
#
<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.5/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Any suggestions?

Sounds like you need to make the same changes you made in the phpmyadmin config file to the Apache config file httpd.conf, by default Apache only allows localhost access. Search for httpd.conf and make changes ,I don't know where conf file would be placed by default on Windows box.

You could change :
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
into:
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from ::1
Allow from localhost
That's in my file. Maybe this will help you. You also didn't say if http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 works fine
But in fact it should work just right after install. If it's not maybe you should try to uninstall wamp and install again.
However if I were you I would consider using another wamp server. I've also used this one but updates are not very often, there are problem with switching php version if you need to do more testing. I recently have moved to http://www.easyphp.org/ and it works very nice, I can switch between php versions without problems and new versions (php/phpmyadmin) appear almost just after release date so I recommend you to test this one.

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...
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I just installed WAP 2.2 d, on my local machine. It runs on Wndows 7 Starter. The installation was done smoothly. Then when I hit the URL localhost/phpmyadmin it gave me a message
**Forbidden**
You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin/on this server.
Then after doing some research on this issue I found one solution as to make the change in file wamp/alias/phpmyadmin.conf
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<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.10.1/">
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Order Deny, Allow
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Allow from 127.0.0.1
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I changed these line to following lines:
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Order Allow, Deny
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<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/XYZ">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Allow, Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
The reason for this problem is most likely because W7 has IPV4 and IPV6 enabled.
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A better more secure solution would be:
<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.10.1/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
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Require local is like saying Allow from 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 i.e. both IP Address ranges alias's for this PC.
Also if you do as you did and Allow from all when you decide to show a friend what you have done and open you router so the world can see your new site, they will also be given access to phpMyAdmin making a hackers life really easy
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Allow from 127.0.0.1
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I suspect the first line may already be present, because you are getting a 403 and not a 404.

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