WAMP not working on vista

[PEO]

Now then fellow Geeks

 

Just installed WAMP for first time on Vista Ultimate, installation went as it should, accepted all the defaults. The little WAMP icon on the task tray is white, not red or yellow. when i hover the mouse over it, it pops up a bubble saying WAMPSERVER -server offline.

 

Just for fun I've:

1. Restarted the WAMP services

2.turned the vista firewall off and restarted the services

3. restarted the machine

4. Drank a mug of PG tips tea

5. played with my rubiks cube

 

any suggestion?

 

cheers

 

PS never had problems installing/operating WAMP on XP pro SP2 machine

[Jona]

The google opinion seems to be that they should work together.... Are you sure you've got the latest version? (2.0).

 

Otherwise it could be UAC? If wamp installs apache as a service you could look under the services and see if you can force it to run?

 

Otherwise might be worth trying xampp to see what happens - apache friends - xampp

[box_l]

i had this problem too.

 

it was working though,

 

have you tried browsing to local host?

 

i think i found a php config or something and edited it so the meter worked correctly.

 

i will post again when my wife gets off the other laptop and i can find what i did

 

BoX

[PEO]

never noticed this before, but thats because i have never had to do it.

 

click 'Put Online'

 

so although the services were started i still needed to do that.

 

cheers Jona

[PEO]

i had this problem too.

 

it was working though,

 

have you tried browsing to local host?

 

i think i found a php config or something and edited it so the meter worked correctly.

 

i will post again when my wife gets off the other laptop and i can find what i did

 

BoX

 

I spoke to soon

 

Yes please that would be great. I've got it online, but still can't view localhost in browser

[PEO]

bump

[Gatt]

I found that I had to change the port from 80 to 8080 in the http.conf file, even though there was no other web server on my PC

This then allowed WAMP (Vista Ent)

[PEO]

I found that I had to change the port from 80 to 8080 in the http.conf file, even though there was no other web server on my PC

This then allowed WAMP (Vista Ent)

 

 

I can only see 'httpd.conf' file is this what you ment?

[Gatt]

Yeah thats it look for a line called

 

#Listen 12.34.56.78:80

Listen 80

 

and change it to

#Listen 12.34.56.78:80

Listen 8080

 

Then restart WAMP

[PEO]

nope didnt work

 

even tried xamp and thats doing the same thing.

 

would be great if it just gave me something to work from

[Jackd]

How about Apache2Triad Net

[Jona]

if the service is starting correctly it sounds like a port / firewall / configuration issue. If not check your Application event log for a more useful error message.

 

Try binding to port 81 or 8080 as above and disabling any proxies and/or adding localhost to your list of exceptions.

 

Cheers

Jona

[maximus44]

from my experience WAMP didn't work no matter how much I tried on vista. While it worked fine on XP on the same PC/network. Be intresting to know if you got it to work. Sorry im no help!

[kesomir]

I run it fine on both vista 32 and vista 64. I have had similar issues as you describe which were due to other software interfering with port 80 (sky anytime)

 

I run it as administrator btw.

[oldfiction]

hey, just had the same problem and thought I'd be nice and post the fix that worked for me.

 

as above poster suggested I closed skype and now wamp works fine.

[MNHughes]

I put this down to two possible causes (WAMP is running on vista for me):

 

ISP Blocking port 80 for incoming connections

 

OR

 

What I found is that my Wireless router needed port 80 open, and so did the antivirus.

 

There is probably an option on yor router to enable web server or something...

 

...that is if you are using it at home.

 

oh by the way ignore the WAMP icon saying its offline, it doesn't work anyway.

 

open the services snap-in and make sure both WAMP-SQL and WAMP APACHE or HTTP server are running and set to automatic (WAMP didn't do this for me)

Edited February 16, 2009 by MNHughes

[peteaholbrook]

Thought i'd add my Tuppence-Worth and Thank You too. Changing to 8080, closing Skype and re-starting worked perfectly. (I did find it odd that when i (out of idle curiousity) opened Skype again, it worked fine, but maybe i shouldnt even go down that road. yet)

[denco10]

if you can connect to 127.0.0.1, but not localhost,

its more than likely that you rushed through your

windows setup and skipped the network part (the same way we use to in xp)

but vista is a little more touchy youll nee to open your host file in notepad

it's in windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

youll see a line that looks like this

::1             localhost

youll need to comment this line out like below and add the second line as shown

#::1             localhost
127.0.0.1      localhost

to make your server live just find the http setting in your firewall and set it to allow inbound (its already allowing outbound or else you couldnt read this )

Edited May 19, 2009 by denco10
because there was an edit button

[MNHughes]

Hi Everyone,

 

I should of posted back to say this issue has been resolved, it was sometime back and i'm not sure exactly how I resolved the problem.

 

I think I run the setup as administrator to make UAC happy then had to go into services and make sql, apache etc all start automatically.

 

Cheers,

 

Martin

[antux555]

Hi Everyone,

 

I should of posted back to say this issue has been resolved, it was sometime back and i'm not sure exactly how I resolved the problem.

 

I think I run the setup as administrator to make UAC happy then had to go into services and make sql, apache etc all start automatically.

 

Cheers,

 

Martin

 

Open up services and stop apache service and then stop mysql service.

Select wampapache and do it as automatic and start it, and same with wampmysql.

 

to test it: http://127.0.0.1/

 

enjoy

[PEO]

solved the problem... nod was interupting

 

1. JUST open up your Nod32 window

2. Navigate to Setup> Advanced Setup Tree > Web Access Protection > HTTP > Web Browsers

3. Uncheck the default browser whoch u chose while installing WAMP, in my case iexplorer