WampServer

Hi. I have recently installed WAMP server on a Window 7 64 bit machine and got it running perfectly on my C drive. I set up the hosts file so that I could access it remotely and this was also working fine but now it has stopped. All I can get is a yellow icon. I have changed the httpd.conf to port 8080 and have tried pointing my browser to localhot, localhost:8080, 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.1:8080 but nothing is working. I am running Kaspersky and have tried disabling this and re-starting WAMP. I have not installed any new software since I installed WAMP. Help!

Thanks

John

As I guess you know if the wamp icon is not green one of the services has not started.

First lest identify which service is not starting.

left click the wamp manager -> Apache -> Service
If the 'Start resume service' menu item is greyed out, then the service is running otherwise its not.

Do the same for MySQL
left click the wamp manager -> MySQL -> Service


So is it apache or mysql that has not started?


If its apache now look in the apache error log for any info about errors when it starts

If there is nothing in there also check the Windows Event Viewer,

Start -> Control Panel ->Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer
Using the menu on the left, Look in the "Windows Logs" -> "Application" area. Look for messages from Apache, you will see the word Apache in the 'Source' column.

If its not obvious whats wrong, post some info here

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestions. It seems that Apache is not running, and there is no sign of any apache events in the Event Viewer. I can post up the apache error log but it is quite long! Lots of errors regaring missing files. The error log ends with a lot of these errors:

(OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : httpd.exe: could not open error log file C:/wamp/www/wordpress/logs/error.log.
Unable to open logs

And here is a snippet which may give an insight:

C:/wamp/www/admn
[Fri Mar 15 18:14:18 2013] [warn] (OS 64)The specified network name is no longer available. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
[Fri Mar 15 19:24:41 2013] [error] [client 58.180.28.14] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/manager
[Fri Mar 15 19:52:35 2013] [warn] (OS 64)The specified network name is no longer available. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
[Sat Mar 16 01:07:54 2013] [warn] (OS 64)The specified network name is no longer available. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
[Sat Mar 16 01:18:07 2013] [error] [client 200.7.160.122] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/manager
[Sat Mar 16 11:57:42 2013] [error] [client 81.149.98.42] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Sat Mar 16 11:57:43 2013] [error] [client 81.149.98.42] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
[Sat Mar 16 12:23:17 2013] [warn] (OS 64)The specified network name is no longer available. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
[Sat Mar 16 23:47:02 2013] [warn] (OS 64)The specified network name is no longer available. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
[Sun Mar 17 00:40:32 2013] [warn] (OS 64)The specified network name is no longer available. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
[Sun Mar 17 02:02:29 2013] [error] [client 91.121.27.147] (20024)The given path is misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /w00tw00t.at.blackhats.romanian.anti-sec HTTP/1.1 to file
[Sun Mar 17 02:02:30 2013] [error] [client 91.121.27.147] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/phpMyAdmin
[Sun Mar 17 02:02:30 2013] [error] [client 91.121.27.147] client denied by server configuration: C:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.5.1/scripts
[Sun Mar 17 02:02:31 2013] [error] [client 91.121.27.147] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/pma
[Sun Mar 17 02:02:31 2013] [error] [client 91.121.27.147] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/myadmin
[Sun Mar 17 02:02:31 2013] [error] [client 91.121.27.147] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/MyAdmin
[Sun Mar 17 04:09:27 2013] [error] [client 176.107.120.53] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/manager

Thanks for your help.

John

It seems that you have somehow made a bit of a mess of your httpd.conf file.


The line
Cannot map GET /w00tw00t.at.blackhats.romanian.anti-sec
just means you are being checkout by a hacker to see if you have an available exploit on your server, dont panic its quite normal and no problem as long as you dont have the exploit.

This lines and the similiar ones:
File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/pma

Mean you have some reference to a folder in your httpd.conf that does not actually exists


This line:

OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : httpd.exe: could not open error log file C:/wamp/www/wordpress/logs/error.log.
Unable to open logs

Means you have directed logging for one of your sites to a folder that does not exist. Create the folder, Apache will not do that for you it will only create the file to log into not the actual folder.


This line:

[warn] (OS 64)The specified network name is no longer available.

I believe is a know bug in the Apache 2.4 release, that has yet to be fixed but there is a work around on this page.

http://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=4606

But I dont think any of these should stop Apache from starting. Try fixing these by checking your httpd.conf and then look at your apache error log again to see if the actual error is then more visible

Hi RiggsFolly

I created the log file folder and it works fine! Not sure how I deleted it in the first place...

Thank you very much for your help it's much appreciated.

Dorlo