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Hello.I need to access phpmyadmin to a remote xampp server. It keeps showing following message.

Access forbidden!

New XAMPP security concept:

Access to the requested object is only available from the local network.

This setting can be configured in the file "httpd-xampp.conf".

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 403
01/06/11 00:23:26
Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0erl/v5.10.

I have the ftp passwd but when i log in to the directory that xampp is set up i cant find the "httpd-xampp.conf".

What is hapenning?
Is there any other way to access phpmyamin?

mike_ledis wrote:I have the ftp passwd but when i log in to the directory that xampp is set up i cant find the "httpd-xampp.conf".

The file is located in your \xampp\apache\conf\extra\ Folder

mike_ledis wrote:Is there any other way to access phpmyamin?

Not by default.

Is your XAMPP connected to the internet?

i cant find the directory apache is there any possibility that this directory is somehow hidden from my ftp client or the admin of the network that xampp is setup deleted that directory?
Yes my xampp is connected to the internet.

mike_ledis wrote:i cant find the directory apache is there any possibility that this directory is somehow hidden from my ftp client

Sure. That depends on the destination path your FTP user is directed to. If you just have access to the htdocs folder, you can't reach the Apache config from there.

Isn't that your server? What kind of access to you have to the server exept FTP?

inside my xampp folder i can see the following folders and dirs

perlinfo.pl
guestbook-zh.pl
guestbook-sl.pl
guestbook-pt_br.pl
guestbook-pt.pl
guestbook-pl.pl
guestbook-no.pl
guestbook-nl.pl
guestbook-jp.pl
guestbook-it.pl
guestbook-fr.pl
guestbook-es.pl
guestbook-en.pl
guestbook-de.pl
cgi.cgi
xampp.js
xampp.css
status.php
start.php
ssi.shtml
ssi.inc
splash.php
softwarelist.inc
showcode.php
phpinfo.php
php.php
phonebook.php
perl.pl
pearinfo.php
navitools.inc
naviservers.inc
naviperl.inc
navibasics.inc
navi.php
mysql.php
mingswf.php
ming.php
mercury-help.php
manuals.php
mailsend.php
mailform.php
langsettings.php
lang.php
ip.html
index.php
iart.php
head.php
guestbook.dat
filezilla.php
components.php
cds.php
biorhythm.php
aspinfo.asp
asp.asp
AnkeCalligraph.TTF
adodb.php
sqlite
lang
img

The server was setup so it can host a joomla cms....

Thats not the correct xampp folder.

To be clear, there are two xampp folders.
The installation folder \xampp\ and one for the xampp backend files \xampp\htdocs\xampp\.
You just have access to the second one.

Contact your server admin which has setuped your server with your problem to access phpmyadmin from outside.

So i have to ask access to the first xampp folder..The instalation one..

no. Your administration just have to change xampp to make external phpmyadmin access possible for you.
I don't think it's a good idea if you have full access to all the XAMPP configuration files. I don't think, that you have the knowledge to do changes there.

And i hope you know what you are doing there. XAMPP is not released as Live-System. It is just a Developement and Testserver and configured for fast working, not for security. In the Default configuration it has several security issues and can be hijacked in just a few seconds. I hope you know what you are doing there, really.

Ok thank you very much.Sry for the noob question...I just started learning about technologies like apache servers and joomla...