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I've followed the guides on installing Wamp and Wordpress [guides.jlbn.net] and have had it working fine before. I'm not sure if this is more Wordpress or a Wamp problem so here goes. After creating the database in phpmyadmin and the wp-config file I go to install and it hangs, click refresh and the log-in details don't work for Wordpress. So I check the wordpress database but the user section is empty and trying to add another user by phpmyadmin gives me a user but no admin privileges. I've ticked the apache rewrite_module and not sure if I'm missing something simple along the way.

I'm using Windows 7 64bit and have tried reinstalling both Wamp and Wordpress a few times but still can't get the admin privileges to work.

Any help appreciated,
drec.

You may have a issue with localhost

look at the apache and php error logs post relevant bits here if you cannot solve it from those.

Thanks, php error log is blank but got this from apache;

[Thu Jan 03 13:55:40 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Win32) PHP/5.4.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Jan 03 13:55:40 2013] [notice] Server built: May 13 2012 13:32:42
[Thu Jan 03 13:55:40 2013] [notice] Parent: Created child process 4812
[Thu Jan 03 13:55:41 2013] [notice] Child 4812: Child process is running
[Thu Jan 03 13:55:41 2013] [notice] Child 4812: Acquired the start mutex.
[Thu Jan 03 13:55:41 2013] [notice] Child 4812: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Thu Jan 03 13:55:41 2013] [notice] Child 4812: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Thu Jan 03 13:55:41 2013] [notice] Child 4812: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:03 2013] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:03 2013] [notice] Child 4812: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:04 2013] [notice] Child 4812: Released the start mutex
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:05 2013] [notice] Child 4812: All worker threads have exited.
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:05 2013] [notice] Child 4812: Child process is exiting
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:05 2013] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:05 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Win32) PHP/5.4.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:05 2013] [notice] Server built: May 13 2012 13:32:42
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:05 2013] [notice] Parent: Created child process 9120
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:06 2013] [notice] Child 9120: Child process is running
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:06 2013] [notice] Child 9120: Acquired the start mutex.
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:06 2013] [notice] Child 9120: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:06 2013] [notice] Child 9120: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Thu Jan 03 13:56:06 2013] [notice] Child 9120: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:00 2013] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:00 2013] [notice] Child 9120: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:01 2013] [notice] Child 9120: Released the start mutex
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:02 2013] [notice] Child 9120: All worker threads have exited.
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:02 2013] [notice] Child 9120: Child process is exiting
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:02 2013] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:03 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Win32) PHP/5.4.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:03 2013] [notice] Server built: May 13 2012 13:32:42
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:03 2013] [notice] Parent: Created child process 11172
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:03 2013] [notice] Child 11172: Child process is running
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:03 2013] [notice] Child 11172: Acquired the start mutex.
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:03 2013] [notice] Child 11172: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:03 2013] [notice] Child 11172: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Thu Jan 03 15:05:03 2013] [notice] Child 11172: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Thu Jan 03 15:08:46 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Thu Jan 03 15:09:48 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Thu Jan 03 15:16:06 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:39 2013] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:39 2013] [notice] Child 11172: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:40 2013] [notice] Child 11172: Released the start mutex
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:41 2013] [notice] Child 11172: All worker threads have exited.
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:41 2013] [notice] Child 11172: Child process is exiting
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:41 2013] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:56 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Win32) PHP/5.4.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:56 2013] [notice] Server built: May 13 2012 13:32:42
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:56 2013] [notice] Parent: Created child process 7744
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:56 2013] [notice] Child 7744: Child process is running
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:56 2013] [notice] Child 7744: Acquired the start mutex.
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:56 2013] [notice] Child 7744: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:56 2013] [notice] Child 7744: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Thu Jan 03 15:19:56 2013] [notice] Child 7744: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:04 2013] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:04 2013] [notice] Child 7744: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:05 2013] [notice] Child 7744: Released the start mutex
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:06 2013] [notice] Child 7744: All worker threads have exited.
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:06 2013] [notice] Child 7744: Child process is exiting
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:06 2013] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:07 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Win32) PHP/5.2.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:07 2013] [notice] Server built: May 13 2012 13:32:42
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:07 2013] [notice] Parent: Created child process 10428
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:08 2013] [notice] Child 10428: Child process is running
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:08 2013] [notice] Child 10428: Acquired the start mutex.
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:08 2013] [notice] Child 10428: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:08 2013] [notice] Child 10428: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:08 2013] [notice] Child 10428: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:15 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:25 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Thu Jan 03 15:20:27 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Thu Jan 03 15:21:30 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Thu Jan 03 15:22:11 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Thu Jan 03 15:22:18 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Thu Jan 03 15:25:17 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Thu Jan 03 15:25:43 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Thu Jan 03 15:26:48 2013] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Thu Jan 03 15:26:48 2013] [notice] Child 10428: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Thu Jan 03 15:26:49 2013] [notice] Child 10428: Released the start mutex
[Thu Jan 03 15:26:50 2013] [notice] Child 10428: All worker threads have exited.
[Thu Jan 03 15:26:55 2013] [notice] Child 10428: Child process is exiting
[Thu Jan 03 15:26:55 2013] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.

Ok that is not much help I am afraid.

One suggestion though, it is better to leave the www folder as it is. When you want to add a site create a folder under the www folder to contain it.

Its actually even better to create a vhost for each site but lets crawl before we run.

So for example c:\wamp\www\site1 and then c:\wamp\www\site2 for the next one. This keeps wamp locahost page running as well as allowing you to have multiple sites to play with.

If you are installing for the first time can I suggest you

1. uninstall wamp using the windows uninstall
2. delete the c:\wamp folder completely. This makes sure your databases are removed as the uninstall will not delete files that the install did not create.
3. reinstall wamp
4. test it works
5. create a folder c:\wamp\www\sitename
6. unzip and copy wordpress into that new folder
7. follow the 5 minute install documentation as before

See how that goes