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Reputation: 2793

Issue with root localhost directory wamp

I just installed wamp on my Windows 7 64 bit machine. I previously had IIS installed on this machine so I disabled it. The issue I'm having is I cannot browse localhost I get

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.4.9 (Win64) PHP/5.5.12 Server at localhost Port 80

Note* I cannot browse to 127.0.0.1 either. Same error.

However, I can browse these directories with no issues.

[PhpMyAdmin](http://localhost/phpmyadmin)  
[SqlBuddy](http://localhost/sqlbuddy)  
[PhpSysInfo](http://localhost/phpsysinfo)

The hosts file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ does contain the following:

127.0.0.1       localhost

Any suggestions on how I can resolve this issue?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9299

Answers (1)

Rui Pires
Rui Pires

Reputation: 132

A likely cause is that the webserver has no permission to read the root www directory.

Have you tried checking your vhosts.conf file? It should be somewhere in

[your wamp dir]/bin/apache/[apache vers]/conf/extra

There check if there is a default virtual host available. There should be one configured by the default install.

Then check the directory pointed by the DocumentRoot directive exists and is readable/writable.

Upvotes: 3

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