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I had exactly the same problem. So I followed this thread. The "Require all granted" command was the solution. Thanks to dookan and JonB
for the contribution.

Well, thanks for all the support JonB, I'm appreciated!
And, good luck with any future releases.

I was searching for this as I had the exact same problem. I tried the OP's solution first and it worked a charm. Thanks

In case this makes it more clear (especially for beginners), the steps I took (After backing up the original httpd-xampp.conf) :

In a terminal:

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

In gedit, Find:
<Directory "/opt/lampp/phpmyadmin">

And add the line to the <Directory>:
Require all granted

After this, the section reads:

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<Directory "/opt/lampp/phpmyadmin">
    AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Require all granted
</Directory>

Save the file, close gedit, then back at the terminal:

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/opt/lampp/lampp restart

http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ now correctly loads.

MrJxN

[edit] My system: Ubuntu 12.04 hosted on Oracle VirtualBox in WIndows 7.

I also found another solution.

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp security

I wasn't able to enter localhost/phpmyadmin neither localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php

At the moment, everything works fine.

Thank you very much for sharing

Dont use this code, its allow access from all..
Just update your httpd-xampp.conf.
Replace the End with:

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

Than restart your lampp with:

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sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart

I think iBaf is referring to these directives written by MrJxN - When he says

Dont use this code, its allow access from all..

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<Directory "/opt/lampp/phpmyadmin">
    AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Require all granted
</Directory>


Subject to review -

I have tried all of the solutions given here, and still cannot access phpMyAdmin. Still get the Access Forbidden and 403 error.

Maybe it's the combination of my linux version (actually it's ubuntu 11.04, natty, not 11.10 as I entered when I was composing this post) and xampp 1.8.1?

this works

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<Directory "/opt/lampp/phpmyadmin">
    AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit
    Require all granted
</Directory>

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