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All you have to do is to edit the httpd-xampp.conf

from Require local to Require all granted in the LocationMatch tag.

That's it!

In New Xampp

All you have to do is to edit the file:

C:xamppapacheconfextrahttpd-xampp.conf

and go to Directory tag as below:

<Directory "C:/xampp/phpMyAdmin">

and then change

Require local

To

Require all granted

in the Directory tag.

Restart the Xampp. That's it!

Require all granted seemed a bit to far for me. Looking at the documentation I used: Require ip 192.168 to allow all internal access.

<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
 Require local
 Require ip 192.168
 ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

 <LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">

 Require all granted
 ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

Good luck!!!!

You will have to edit 2 files - 1. httpd-vhosts.conf & 2. httpd-xampp.conf

NOTE : Make sure u backup files ( httpd-xampp.conf ) and (
httpd-vhosts.conf ) , Both Files are located in
Drive:xamppapacheconfextra

Open httpd-vhosts.conf file and in the bottom of the file change it

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot “E:/xampp/htdocs/”
ServerName localhost
<Directory E:/xampp/htdocs/>.
Require all granted 
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Here E:/xampp is my project workspace, you can change it as per your settings

and Second Change is on httpd-xampp.conf file and in the bottom of the file change it

#
# New XAMPP security concept
#
<LocationMatch “^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))”>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8
ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

Try to reinstall new version of XAMPP. Find "<Directory "C:/xampp/php">" and then change to something like this

<Directory "C:/xampp/php">
 AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
 Require all granted
</Directory>

Comment out the line Require local in httpd-xampp.conf.

Restart Apache.

Worked for me connecting my mobile phone to my test web-site on my PC.
No idea of the security implications.

just remove:

Alias /phpmyadmin "C:/xampp2/phpMyAdmin/"
<Directory "C:/xampp2/phpMyAdmin">
 AllowOverride AuthConfig
 Require all granted
</Directory>

and remove phpmyadmin from:

<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|server-status|server-info))">

Some of the Answers are correct, but in case of working with new xampp or with some one not working other answers try this:

just go to the xampp folder:

xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-xampp.c­onf

and if you are trying to access from local ip in your network so change,

 Alias /phpmyadmin "C:/xampp/phpMyAdmin/"
 <Directory "C:/xampp/phpMyAdmin">
 AllowOverride AuthConfig
 Require local
 ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
 </Directory>

Change to :

 Alias /phpmyadmin "C:/xampp/phpMyAdmin/"
 <Directory "C:/xampp/phpMyAdmin">
 AllowOverride AuthConfig
 Require all granted
 ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
 </Directory>

Note: this is just for text, for the security of the xampp has some search....

To access the requested directory other than local network, you need to change the XAMPP security concept
configured in the file "httpd-xampp.conf".

• File location xamppapacheconfextrahttpd-xampp.conf
  

Require Directive Selects which authenticated users can access a resource

Syntax « Require entity-name [entity-name] ...

From « XAMPP security concept allows only local environment - Require local

<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
 Require local
 ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

To « XAMPP security concept allows any environment - Require all granted

<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
 Require all granted
 ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

Access forbidden! message from HTML Page.

Allow Directive Controls which hosts can access an area of the server

Syntax « Allow from all|host|env=[!]env-variable [host|env=[!]env-variable] ...

Allowing only local environment. Using any of the below specified url's.

• http://localhost/phpmyadmin/


• 
  

  http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/

  
  
  
  
  

  <LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
   Order deny,allow
   Deny from all
   Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8 
  
   ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
  </LocationMatch>
  

  
  
  

Allowing only to specified IPv4, IPv6 address spaces.

• Link-local addresses for IPv4 are defined in the address block 169.254.0.0/16 in CIDR notation. In IPv6, they are assigned the address block fe80::/10
  


• 
  

  A unique local address (ULA) is an IPv6 address in the block fc00::/7

  
  
  
  
  

  <LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
   Order deny,allow
   Deny from all
   Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8 
   fc00::/7 10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/12 192.168.0.0/16 
   fe80::/10 169.254.0.0/16
  
   ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
  </LocationMatch>
  

  
  
  

Allowing for any network address. Allow from all

<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
 Order deny,allow
 Allow from all

 ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

404 - XAMPP Control Panel: Unable to start Apache HTTP server.

URL: http://localhost/xampp/index.php

Error « 
 Not Found
 HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.

Required default Apache HTTP server port 80 is actually used by other Service.

• 
  

  You need to find the service running with port 80 and stop the service, then start the Apache HTTP server.

  
  
  

  Use Netstat to displays active TCP connections, ports on which the computer is listening.

  
  
  
  
  

   C:Usersyashwanth.m>netstat -ano
  
   Active Connections
  
   Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID
   TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2920
   TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 1124
  
   TCP 127.0.0.1:5354 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 3340
  
   TCP [::]:80 [::]:0 LISTENING 2920
  
  C:Usersyashwanth.m>netstat -ano |findstr 2920
   TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2920
   TCP 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2920
   TCP [::]:80 [::]:0 LISTENING 2920
   TCP [::]:443 [::]:0 LISTENING 2920
  
  C:Usersyashwanth.m>taskkill /pid 2920 /F
   SUCCESS: The process with PID 2920 has been terminated.
  

  
  
  


• 
  

  Change listening port from main Apache HTTP server configuration file D:xamppapacheconfhttpd.conf. Ex: 81. From Listen 80 To Listen 81, the access URL will be http://localhost:81/xampp/index.php.

  
  
  
  
  

  # Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to 
  # prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses.
  #
  #Listen 0.0.0.0:80
  #Listen [::]:80
  Listen 80
  

  
  
  

For more information related to httpd and virtual host on XAMPP

In your xampppathapacheconfextra open file httpd-xampp.conf and find the below tag:

<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8 
ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var 

and add Allow from all after Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8 line

Restart xampp, and you are done.

A reason for this could be Skype as well! If you use the default XAMPP settings, they both would run on the same port (80). You can:

• Turn off Skype


• Change the XAMPP port

If you're using a newer XAMPP (for example for PHP 5.6, 7) which is built with "Bitnami" installer and it includes Apache 2.4.x then this applies:

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#run-time

2.2 configuration:

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

2.4 configuration:

Require all granted

This also applies to VirtualHost sections, if you have any custom virtualhost definitions.

Ubuntu (Linux)

:- $ sudo gedit /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-xampp.conf

 Comment "Deny from all" in the following section,

Change file

# New XAMPP security concept
# <LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
 Order deny,allow

 #Deny from all
 #Require local
 Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8 
 fc00::/7 10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/12 192.168.0.0/16 
 fe80::/10 169.254.0.0/16

 ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var

For many it's a permission issue, but for me it turns out the error was brought about by a mistake in the form I was trying to submit. To be specific i had accidentally put ">" sign after the value of "action". So I would suggest you take a second look at your code

I tried everything but nothing worked. So I just used : chmod -R 777 to htdocs. At least it's only in my local.

G:xamppapacheconfextrahttpd-vhosts.conf

#start block
NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName localhost
 #change your directory name
 DocumentRoot "G:xampphtdocs"
</VirtualHost>

#Your vertual Host
<VirtualHost *:80>
 DocumentRoot "G:/xampp/htdocs/dev2018/guessbook"
 ServerName dev.foreign-recruitment
 <Directory "G:/xampp/htdocs/dev2018/guessbook/">

 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#end block

This could be because of wrong configuration, esp if your other sites are working fine.

<VirtualHost cmsdemo.git:88>
 DocumentRoot "C:/Projects/rwp/"
 ServerName cmsdemo.git
 <Directory C:/Projects/cmsdemo/>
 Require all granted 
 AllowOverride All
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Notice in DocumentRoot I am specifying one folder and in Directory, I am specifying another hence 403 Error. This fixed my problem.