WampServer

Yesterday I was getting this error message

phpMyAdmin - Error The mysqli extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration. <a href="Documentation.html#faqmysql" target="documentation"><img src="themes/dot.gif" title="Documentation" alt="Documentation" class="icon ic_b_help" /></a>

I re-installed Wampserver and today I am getting this error message

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server.

Everything was fine when I last used Wampserver about 6 weeks ago.

I am running V2.4 64bit on a Windows 7 64 bit machine.

When you re-installed, did you uninstall first and then delete the c:\wamp folder? Or just reinstall over the top of the previous install

I just reinstalled over the top

Try this.

Uninstall WAMP
Manually delete C:\WAMP and all sub folders.

Install WAMP again.

I have done that and now all I get is a blank screen

Install TeamViewer and I will troubleshoot for you.

Install TV, then run it.

Do this before attempting a connection.

How to Configure Team Viewer so it does not require port 80 or 443

Run TV
Extras -> Options -> Advanced -> Press the Advanced Button -> Advanced Network Connections

Check the checkbox saying [ Dont use incomming port 80 (recommended for web servers only ) ]
Stop and restart TV.

Then
Send me a Private Message containing the TV ID and PASSWORD so I can connect.
Leave TV running as it will change the password each time you restart it.

I am on UK time (GMT+1) and am normally available 09:00 - 16:00 and sometimes later into the evening.

PM sent

Solved, for reference there were multiple WAMP like products installed EASYPHP specifically and for some reason it was picking up the php.ini file from another folder.

C:\program files(x86)\PHP\php.ini

Eventually found this by checking the phpinfo page which showed the location the it was finding php.ini in

Renamed that file and it started to work properly again.

Thanks very much for all your help. I don't believe it was EASYPHP but an old 2011 install of PHP by something other than Wampserver as I only installed EASYPHP yesterday because I couldn't get wampserver to run.

More of an issue though why is 64Bit Wampserver looking in program files (x86) for a php folder with a php.ini in it. Surely it should only look in \wamp for it.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/16/2013 05:47PM by dargo99.

drago,

Have a look with regedit for these keys.
WAMP does not create them.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PHP\x.y.z],
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PHP\x.y] and [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PHP\x],

where x, y and z mean the PHP major, minor and release versions.
If there is a value for IniFilePath in any of these keys, the first one found will be used as the location of the php.ini (Windows only).

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PHP], value of IniFilePath (Windows only).

If they are there this could have been causing this issue.
I woudl recommend removing them as WAMP does nto use them and they were probably placed there by something else.

Thanks for the suggestion those registry keys don't exist on my machine.