WampServer

WAMP was running great and then a few days ago it stopped working. The problem seems to be Apache - it won't start. I tested port 80 and it says it's open. I don't have Skype, which seems to be the problem for most people. I removed and then re-installed the Apache service, but nothing happened. Here is a recent snippet of my error log:

[Wed Jan 16 12:08:02 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Wed Jan 16 12:13:21 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Wed Jan 16 12:29:52 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Wed Jan 16 13:10:49 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Wed Jan 16 13:11:03 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Wed Jan 16 13:17:11 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Wed Jan 16 13:19:21 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Division by zero in C:\\Users\\Matt\\Google Drive\\web\\php\\looping-sections-of-code.php on line 79
[Wed Jan 16 13:19:21 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Stack trace:
[Wed Jan 16 13:19:21 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 1. {main}() C:\\Users\\Matt\\Google Drive\\web\\php\\looping-sections-of-code.php:0
[Wed Jan 16 13:19:21 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Wed Jan 16 13:19:45 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Mon Jan 21 09:55:15 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/php
[Mon Jan 21 09:55:15 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Mon Jan 21 09:56:27 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/php
[Mon Jan 21 09:56:27 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Mon Jan 21 09:56:59 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/php
[Mon Jan 21 09:56:59 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Mon Jan 21 09:57:19 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/php
[Mon Jan 21 09:57:19 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Mon Jan 21 09:57:29 2013] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Mon Jan 21 09:57:29 2013] [notice] Child 7160: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Mon Jan 21 09:57:30 2013] [notice] Child 7160: Released the start mutex
[Mon Jan 21 09:57:36 2013] [notice] Child 7160: All worker threads have exited.
[Mon Jan 21 09:57:36 2013] [notice] Child 7160: Child process is exiting
[Mon Jan 21 09:57:37 2013] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.

It was on Mon Jan 21 that it stopped working. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Have you also checked your php error log.


Division by Zero is normally a fairly serious error

It said that the PHP error log could not be found. Is that normal? I looked in the logs folder and it indeed isn't there.

Its fairly normal if you are running some scruffy php code and the developer wanted to hide that fact that it is throwing lots of errors.

Check the following parameters in the php.ini file

edit php.ini by doing the following:
left click wampmanager icon in the system tray -> PHP -> php.ini

search for -> log_errors , change to ->log_errors = On

search for -> error_log , change to error_log = "c:/wamp/logs/php_error.log"


This will tell php to log any errors into this file which you can then check.