Accessing phpmyadmin remotely - I get this security error: For security reasons, this URL is only accesible using localhost (127.0.0.1) as the hostname

Hi all, I downloaded and powered on LAMPStack 5.4.5-0 VMware virtual machine. All is fine with the networking as from my host I can see the welcome page at http://192.168.1.8/ , which is my vmappliance IP.

However, when I try to navigate to http://192.168.1.8/phpmyadmin I get the error message below:

For security reasons, this URL is only accesible using localhost (127.0.0.1) as the hostname

At this point I have read the documentation and already changed "Allow from 127.0.0.1" with "Allow from all" in .. apps/phpmyadmin/conf/phpmyadmin.conf with not success.

I noticed one part of my out-of-the-box phpmyadmin.conf is different to the one that is included in all online documents. After changing the line "Allow from 127.0.0.1" with "Allow from all" that part looks like this:

<IfVersion < 2.3 >
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy all
</IfVersion>
<IfVersion >= 2.3>
Require local
</IfVersion>

I am thinking that the Require local under the <ifversion>= 2.3> may be conflicting with the Allow from all. I haven’t found any alternative syntax for that as all online documentation doesn't include that syntax in the file used as example.

I will really appreciate if somebody can give me some help with this.

Thanks,

Juan