[SOLVED] Setting Up WAMP

[cookiemonster4470]

I'm new to this site and trying to learn PHP/MySQL, but hit my first road-bump in that I can't get Apache working. 

 

I just went to http://www.wampserver.com and installed WAMP5 1.7.3 with PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.45, but when I go to http://localhost/ I get the error: "Forbidden  You don't have permission to access / on this server."

 

What is wrong?

 

(I thought people used WAMP to avoid having tons of set-up issues?!)  :-\

 

 

Amy

 

[cookiemonster4470]

I got Apache to display the default WAMP page temporarily but now it is broken again?!  ???

 

I've been playing with the httpd.conf but haven't had any luck. 

 

Here are some key lines...

#Listen 12.34.56.78:80

Listen 80

 

#

# ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.

# This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify

# it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.

#

# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.

#

ServerName localhost:80

 

#

# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your

# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but

# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.

#

DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"

 

Amy

 

[cookiemonster4470]

Looks like I had to change the path in two places (see red)...

#

# ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.

# This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify

# it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.

#

# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.

#

ServerName localhost:80

 

#

# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your

# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but

# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.

#

DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"

#DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/zTest"

#DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/zWalrus"

 

#

# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect

# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that

# directory (and its subdirectories).

#

# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of

# features. 

#

<Directory />

    Options FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride None

    Order deny,allow

    Deny from all

    Satisfy all

</Directory>

 

#

# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow

# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as

# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it

# below.

#

 

#

# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.

#

<Directory "C:/wamp/www">

#<Directory "C:/wamp/zTest">

#<Directory "C:/wamp/zWalrus">

#

#

#

 

 

Amy