New xampp security concept: Access Forbidden Error 403 - Windows 7 - phpMyAdmin

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:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-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!