Posted by:
herb
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Hi Guys,
I really hate to ask for help, but for the past two days I've unable to get my new machine up with Wampserver, and I'm afraid it might be something easy for the experts.
My new machine is running 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1.
My previous machine that works fine is also 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 and is still running Wampserver 2.0 with Apache 2.2.11, PHP 5.2.8, MySQL 5.1.30
I initially installed the Wampserver (64 bits * PHP 5.4) version 2.4 but found that my Drupal 6.14 site didn't like PHP 5.4. I tried to install the older PHP 5.31 on this install but it said that it was incompatible with Apache 2.4.4
I then uninstalled from control panel this version and installed the Wampserver (64 bits * PHP 5.3) version 2.2E (No registry removal of wamp* was done)
After visiting the localhost and PhpMyAdmin with the new install I got a permissions error accessing PhpMyAdmin. I “fixed” this in the phpmyadmin.conf by editing to Allow from all as follows:
<Directory "s:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.5.1/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
The server works fine on using static pages accessed via the localhost url but not by using 127.0.0.1
However, think that this 127.0.0.1 error might also be causing some problems with (Access denied for user herb@localhost using password: YES), permissions in opening my drupal database even though I have repeatedly confirmed the user permissions, password, and username are correct.
I followed the instructions at [
forum.wampserver.com] to Ignore the IPV6 Address range by editing the http.conf file to
Listen 0.0.0.0:80
and edited the hosts file to comment out the ::1 as in #::1
However, even with these edits I cannot get to 127.0.0.1 without a (Forbidden You don’t have permission to access / on this server). While localhost works fine.
FWIW, everything worked fine with Wampserver 2.0 without any of these edits so I guess it must be a function of the security in the 2.2 Wampserver or Apache 2.2.22 vs 2.2.11
Any suggestions you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
If there are no obvious errors could I attempt another complete uninstall and re-install after deleting all wamp* references in the registry and/or look for a Wampserver 2.0 to try to install?
Thanks greatly for all your efforts!!!
OK - Just uninstalled everything, cleaned the registry, and started over.
A ping on localhost returned ::1 so it confirmed I have an IPV6 issue.
I used option 2 on [
forum.wampserver.com] to enable IPV6 localhost usage on my machine.
This fixed the problem of not accessing the localhost via 127.0.0.1,, however, I still cannot open my Drupal database using the correct username and password... so I fear I still have some other permissions challenges to resolve.
Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/2014 12:21AM by herb.