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PHP Apache application gives "Forbidden" message

We have a PHP Apache web application that is running on a Windows 2012-R2 VM server. All works fine on Localhost, but when we try to view remotely by pointing to http://<FQDN-of-Server>:8080
we get the error message:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.4.18 (Win64) PHP/5.6.19 Server at <Server-Name> Port 8080

WampServer Version 3.0.4 64bit.
Have tried to change config files to allow all, and also configured the Wamp to 'put online'. Local firewall on Windows server has rules to permit incoming traffic on port 8080. Nothing has helped. Please advise.

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Akulsh

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I posted this on behalf of a friend, who is involved in some other project at this time, and cannot give any feedback -- though he has tried some of your suggestions already. I will post again in a few days. Please understand.

Akulsh

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gr8gonzo,

The link that helped us was
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19377476/forbidden-you-dont-have-permission-to-access-on-this-server-wamp-error

It referred us to this file :
C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
Where we saw:

<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot c:/wamp64/www
<Directory "c:/wamp64/www/">
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Commenting out 'Require local' fixed the issue:
# Require local

Thanks for your time.

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