WampServer

I've been running WAMP on Windows 7 just fine for many years. I just upgraded to Windows 8 (from 7) and immediately installed the preview release of 8.1. I did not worry about configuring WAMP to work on Windows 8 as I was upgrading.

The issue is that the WAMP icon in the system tray stays red and appears to be offline (although hovering over the icon reveals 'WAMPSERVER - Server Online'). Opening any of my websites results in the expected website cannot be found error.

I'm running WAMP version 2.2E 32 bits.

What I've done:
1. Disabled WWW Publishing service
2. Validated that nothing is listening on port 80
3. Verified that hosts file has ::1 line commented out
4. "ping -4 localhost" returns 127.0.0.1 (although 'ping localhost' returns ::1)
5. Pinging my virtual hosts (i.e., localhost-domain.com) also returns correct 127.0.0.1
6. Flushed DNS cache
7. Restarted
8. Configured Skype to not run on 80/443 and even exited the program
9. Configured the httpd.conf fix (comment out 'Listen 80' add 'Listen 0.0.0.0:80')

I could not find any log file that was updated in the time that I upgraded nor did I find anything in the Windows Eventlog.

I've seen very few threads on getting WAMP to work in Windows 8.1. Any help to get this working is greatly appreciated.

When you upgraded from win7 to win8 did you re-install wamp?

If not the services will probably have been removed by the upgrade.

Try

left click on wampmanager -> MySQL -> Service -> Install Service

left click on wampmanager -> Apache -> Service -> Install Service

Then restart all services

That worked perfectly. And no, I did not reinstall WAMP. Thanks so much for the help.

THIS WORKS FOR ME TOO! THANKS.

THIS WORKS FOR ME TOO! NICE!

Thanks. This worked for me. I had uninstalled wamp since it suddenly stopped working after a while in my windows 8 OS. And then I could not make it run despite of installation of Visual C++ redistribution 11. This helped me.