WampServer

After successfully installing and configuring wampserver 2.2, I was using PHPMyAdmin with Listen 80 and ServerName localhost:80 configured in httpd.conf Then for some unknown reason, after starting wampserver, I got 404 page error on localhost. After some research on forums, I changed httpd.conf to Listen 81 and ServerName localhost:81. I still got the 404 page error until I changed localhost url to localhost:81, which worked.
Problem is, when I start wampserver, it seems defaulted to Listen 80, because even though httpd.conf is configured with 81, I still get the 404 page error and have to manually add :81 to the localhost url to access localhost/phpmyadmin. Am I missing some configuration setting? Any help appreciated

If you change the listening port you will always have to add the new port number namually to the url.

Everything ( browsers especially ) expects web servers to run on port 80 and therefore default to that.


My suggestion is work out why port 80 got grabbed by something else and fix that.


Try wampmanager -> Apache -> Service -> Test port 80
to find out what you may have installed since wamp worked ok that has now grabbed port 80.

Its normally SKYPE or IIS but it can be other things as well.

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Port 80 is used by Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Its not listed in Microsoft Services.
Localhost was working perfectly on the default Port 80, up until yesterday, very strange.

What did you recently install?

Ok so that means your system has Microsoft IIS installed, they are doing that on later versions of Windows for some reason. If you are not intending to use it you can uninstall it, it is not an integral part of windows so its being uninstalled wont effect normal operations of windows, and if you need to install it again later, it comes as part of the standard OS so you wont need to do anything perticularly clever.

So go to Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features
Click the 'Turn windows features on and off' link in the left hand menu.
Wait for the list to load and then find 'Internet Information Services'

Un check the check boxes for the following items ( you may not see all of them )

1. IIS
2. Web Deploy 2.0
3. MS Sql Server Reporting service.

List of possible service names

http://blogs.technet.com/b/fort_sql/archive/2010/05/31/list-of-sql-server-service-names.aspx

Tutorial on how to find what ports are in use on your system and what app is using them

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bgroth/archive/2004/11/11/256190.aspx

Windows will then have a think for a while and then remove those applications, you will probably be asked to reboot to complete the uninstalls.
Reboot anyway when the uninstalls are complete.

Then try wamp again.


Alternativeley just disable it.

Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services

Find IIS in the list of services.
Left Click that line and select Properties
Change the 'Startup Type' to disabled.

You may need to tdo this to MS Sql Server Reporting as well.

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(Windows 10 Pro 64bit) (Wampserver 3.3.4 64bit) Aestan Tray Menu 3.2.5.4
<Apache versions MULTIPE> <PHP versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Versions MULTIPLE>
<MariaDB versions MULTIPLE> <phpMyAdmin versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Workbench 8.0.23>
Read The Manuals Apache -- MySQL -- PHP -- phpMyAdmin
Get your Apache/MySQL/mariaDB/PHP ADDONs here from the WAMPServer alternate Repo
-X-X-X- Backup your databases regularly Here is How dont regret it later! Yes even when developing -X-X-X-



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/06/2014 11:50PM by RiggsFolly.

Web Deployment Agent Service was using Port 80. I disabled it and restarted wampserver and running on Port 80 again