Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin on this server.

I got the same error if I tried using the IP address of the system instead of example.com.

I could see the phpMyAdmin files on the system in /usr/share/phpMyAdmin and the rpm command showed the package for it was installed on the system.

# rpm -qa | grep Admin
phpMyAdmin-4.3.6-1.el7.noarch

And when I logged into the web server, opened a browser, and pointed it to http://localhost/phpmyadmin, I was able to get the phpMyAdmin login prompt. I could also get to the setup page at http://localhost/phpmyadmin/setup. I still received the "forbidden" error message if I tried the IP address of the system in the address bar of the browser while logged into the system, though.

I encountered the same error message about 4 years ago as noted in Installing phpMyAdmin on a CentOS System Running Apache. In that case my notes indicated I edited the phpmyadmin.conf file to add access from an additional IP address. But when I looked for a phpadmin.conf file on the current system, there was none to be found. After a little further investigation, though, I found I should have been looking for phpMyAdmin.conf rather than phpmyadmin.conf. I.e., I needed to look for a file with a capital "M" and "A" in the file name.

# locate phpMyAdmin.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf

I then added 192.168 after the instances of the localhost address, 127.0.0.1, in the Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/ section of /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf as shown below, since the other systems on the LAN had addresses in the 192.168.xxx.xxx range, so I could access phpMyAdmin from any other system on the LAN.

<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/>
   AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

   <IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
     # Apache 2.4
     <RequireAny>
       Require ip 127.0.0.1 192.168
       Require ip ::1
     </RequireAny>
   </IfModule>
   <IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
     # Apache 2.2
     Order Deny,Allow
     Deny from All
     Allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168
     Allow from ::1
   </IfModule>
</Directory>

I then restarted the Apache web server software by running apachectl restart from the root account. I was then able to access phpMyAdmin using the internal IP address of the system, e.g., http://192.168.0.5/phpmyadmin, though http://example.com/phpmyadmin didn't work because even though I was trying to access the server from a system on the same LAN by using the fully qualified domain name (FQDN), I was then accessing the system by the external address on the outside of the firewall/router it sits behind. But, in this case, accessing it by IP address was sufficient.

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On newer versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, such as Windows 2008 and Server 2012, the at command that could be used on earlier versions of Windows to schedule the execution of batch jobs at a specified interval has been deprecated. The command has been replaced with schtasks. You can use schtasks to specify how frequently a batch job should be run, the account it should be run from, the time the task should run, an end time, end date, etc.

C:\Users\JDoe>schtasks /?

SCHTASKS /parameter [arguments]

Description:
    Enables an administrator to create, delete, query, change, run and
    end scheduled tasks on a local or remote system.

Parameter List:
    /Create         Creates a new scheduled task.

    /Delete         Deletes the scheduled task(s).

    /Query          Displays all scheduled tasks.

    /Change         Changes the properties of scheduled task.

    /Run            Runs the scheduled task on demand.

    /End            Stops the currently running scheduled task.

    /ShowSid        Shows the security identifier corresponding to a scheduled t
ask name.

    /?              Displays this help message.

Examples:
    SCHTASKS
    SCHTASKS /?
    SCHTASKS /Run /?
    SCHTASKS /End /?
    SCHTASKS /Create /?
    SCHTASKS /Delete /?
    SCHTASKS /Query  /?
    SCHTASKS /Change /?
    SCHTASKS /ShowSid /?

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