Account recovery

[Attridge]

when i used Xampp for the first time,i made an account but i cant remember the password.Please can some1 tell me how to and i cannot change it because every time i go to security it says this;Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 403

localhost
01/01/09 18:55:30
Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8

[LooseCannon]

Hello and welcome Attridge.

I'm not sure where you want to go nor which user you're referring to.

By "security" do you mean http://localhost/security/index.php? If so, I don't know why you'd need a user and password for that when done from the localhost, ie the PC running XAMPP.

If you're referring to MySQL, when you say you made a new account, you mean one different from the user "root"? If so, root still has its [blank] password and you can gain access using that?

[Triads]

i receive the same Access forbidden when I try to access Security for the main XAMPP for Windows page..
Opens a new window "http://localhost/security/lang.php?en"
Using windows 2000 server Sp4..

Now I did had MySQL 5.1.* and PHP installed prior to installing XAMPP, could that have had some unwanted
effect for XAMPP? Those were uninstalled prior to installing XAMPP

[Attridge]

um yeah i use MYSQL and http://localhost/security/lang.php?en doesnt work it says
Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 403

localhost
01/01/09 18:55:30
Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8
and i need my password for root so i can use my MYSQL data base

[Wiedmann]

and http://localhost/security/lang.php?en doesnt work it says
Access forbidden!

Your OS is Vista?
--> search the forum.

[tsvas]

I am using Vista. I have same problem.

http://localhost/security/lang.php?en

Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 403
localhost
01/03/09 21:02:03
Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0

[Sharley]

and http://localhost/security/lang.php?en doesnt work it says
Access forbidden!

Your OS is Vista?
--> search the forum.

http://community.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=32670

[Attridge]

yep i use vista lol

[el-quds]

I hope this will help cause i suffered from this

not an expert but i guess this solved my problem and might be useful for some

I have xampp 1.7.1

every time i try to go to security i got the message of

" Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 403 "

her is what i did

I opened the file ...\\\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp.conf


useing wordpad and went to the line

</IfModule>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost

changed this to

Deny From none
Allow from All

and saved the file , then i restarted xampp through Xampp control panel Application
stop and start function
and it worked and opened the security page very well
I then entered my passwords for all channels and when finished i went to the mentioned file and returned every thing as it was...


Now it works fine

thnks