WampServer

Hey guys, my first post. I have a little trouble. I installed wamp and everything was running fine, then turned off my computer and tried it a few days later and now it wont run. It seems to be stuck in its offline yellow colour. I keep trying to start the apache server but nothing seems to happen. I've checked port 80 and it says its free, I have also tried changing the port to 8080 but still nothing. I'm not running skype or any other program at the moment. Here's what the error log is coming up with.

130330 12:32:18 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
130330 12:32:18 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
130330 12:32:18 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
130330 12:32:18 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
130330 12:32:18 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
130330 12:32:18 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
130330 12:32:18 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
130330 12:32:32 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
130330 12:32:33 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 3612710
130330 12:32:33 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '(null)'; port: 3306
130330 12:32:33 [Note] - '(null)' resolves to '::';
130330 12:32:33 [Note] - '(null)' resolves to '0.0.0.0';
130330 12:32:33 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '0.0.0.0'.
130330 12:32:33 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
130330 12:32:33 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.5.24-log' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL)

Any help would be much appreciated as it's starting to drive me mad... thanks"

If WAMP Manager is Orange then one of the 2 services have not started. As MySQL seems to have started fine as your mysql error log says so ( Ignore the FEDERATED message, or look up what federated databases are? ).

Lets check it is Apache that has not started:
1.
left click wampmanager icon -> Apache -> Service
If the Restart/Resume service menu item is GREEN then Apache has not started.

left click wampmanager icon -> Apache -> Service -> Test port 80
This will run a command window and tell you what, if anything, is using port 80


Its best to re-configure, disable or uninstall whatever it is that is holding port 80.


Tell us what is reported and we will tell you how to best proceed.
Also mention what version of windiws you are running and what versions of Apache and PHP you have installed.

Hey RiggsFolly, thanks for the reply.

1.
left click wampmanager icon -> Apache -> Service
If the Restart/Resume service menu item is GREEN then Apache has not started.

With this one the Start/resume service was still showing next to a green triangle, it doesn't seem to do anything if I click on it.

Testing port 80 I get this.

"Your port 80 is not actually used."

With this one the Start/resume service was still showing next to a green triangle, it doesn't seem to do anything
if I click on it.

Thats the point, for some reason Apache has not started automatically as it should and it does not matter how often you click it it wont start.

Right so you have an Apache error: No point posting the MySQL error log !!!

If there is noting in the apache errro log look in the windows Event viewer

Start -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer
And look in the 'Windows Logs' -> Application' section accessed from the menu on the left of the dialog.

If the problem is not obvious then post the errors here

Thanks, I've checked this now. This appears to be the error:

The Apache service named reported the following error:
>>> httpd.exe: Syntax error on line 206 of P:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.2.22/conf/httpd.conf: P:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.2.22/conf/httpd.conf:206: <Directory> was not closed. .

This line of text in the config file is set to:
<Directory "P://wamp/www/">

Thanks so much for your help, I think I've managed to fix it now. I think something got mixed up in this config file, I've managed to get it to boot now.