Hello Thupten » » phpmyadmin https://www.thupten.feedback Just another developer's blog Fri, 08 May 2026 23:50:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Block access to phpmyadmin from LAN network on Xampp https://www.thupten.feedback/2013/11/24/block-access-to-phpmyadmin-from-lan-network-on-xampp/ https://www.thupten.feedback/2013/11/24/block-access-to-phpmyadmin-from-lan-network-on-xampp/#respond Sun, 24 Nov 2013 23:59:45 +0000 http://www.hellothupten.com/?p=538 httpd-xampp.conf located in xampp-folder\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp.conf Somewhere down in the bottom of this configuration file is the LocationMatch node Even though you would think the default Order is set to deny, allow with Deny from all. This configuration by default is set to Allow from 192.168.0.#. Remove this ip range and you are set. Change this 

<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from ::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

ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>
To this 

<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8 \
fc00::/7 10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/12 \
fe80::/10 169.254.0.0/16

ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>
Don’t forget to restart Apache. Now http://localhost/myphpadmin will result 403 Forbidden error.]]> https://www.thupten.feedback/2013/11/24/block-access-to-phpmyadmin-from-lan-network-on-xampp/feed/ 0