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Hi guys,

I have a fresh install of WAMP on a new Win8 PC. Specs are as follows:

WAMP v.2.5
Including:
Apache 2.4.9
PHP 5.5.12
MySQL 5.6.17

My hosts file refers to localhost as: 127.0.0.1 localhost

No virtual hosts are setup.
IIS is listening on port 80, so my httpd.conf file listens on port 8080.

My project directory is named 'eoy' and sits in the E:\wamp\www directory.

When I click on the 'eoy' link on the WAMP homepage, the browser attempts to load [eoy], which obviously fails. I see this problem mentioned before, with the brief reply 'use VirtualHost'. I do not see documentation for configuring a virtualhost, and the 'trainings' tab loads the main site again, but in French. I have the same setup (slightly earlier version numbers) on my Win7 laptop and it worked out of the box without Virtualhost. I'm hoping the same can be achieved here.

I have tried changing the httpd.conf file to listen on 8080, :8080, 0.0.0.0:8080, and 127.0.0.1:8080 but it has not made any difference.

Any help or advice appreciated.

Hi,

Cette url n'est pas en Français - This url is not in French : [forum.wampserver.com]

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Merci - Thank you. I'll give it a shot.

apparently there are only 2 solutions to this, look at my question.

[forum.wampserver.com]

Hi,

Not use VirtualHost is definitely the wrong solution.

For example, wampserver.com is hosted by Gandi and you do not call (http://gandi/wampserver.com); well, in the same way, your projects are hosted by localhost and you should not add an additional level in the url, if you do it, variables like $ _SERVER [...] will not have the right values​​.

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eamonn describes the problem I'm experiencing. It looks like the system is not including localhost/ when writing to wampmanager.ini. It writes this, for example :


[myProjectsMenu]
;WAMPPROJECTMENUSTART
Type: item; Caption: "test"; Action: run; FileName: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"; Parameters: "[test];; Glyph: 5
Type: item; Caption: "videodb"; Action: run; FileName: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"; Parameters: "[videodb];; Glyph: 5

instead of this:

[myProjectsMenu]
;WAMPPROJECTMENUSTART
Type: item; Caption: "test"; Action: run; FileName: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"; Parameters: "[localhost];; Glyph: 5
Type: item; Caption: "videodb"; Action: run; FileName: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"; Parameters: "[localhost];; Glyph: 5

If the code that updates the My Projects list, wherever it is, would just append 'localhost/' after [], the links would work.

The sample code got mangled. I'll try again. Parameters should be http etc. followed by localhost/ and then the project directory - say, test/. The localhost/ bit is not being written when the .ini file is updated.

Hello,

Tonight, I'll post an edit procedure to add 'localhost' (or not) in the url of the projects

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Hello,

Not sure if you have found the solution yet, but I was having the same problem with my new install of WAMP. I was able to fix it by editing a line in the default "index.php" file in the root folder.

Try searching the index.php file for:

$projectContents .= '<li><a href="'.($suppress_localhost ? 'http://' : '').$file.'">'.$file.'</a></li>';

and replace it with:

$projectContents .= '<li><a href="'.($suppress_localhost ? 'http://localhost/' : '').$file.'">'.$file.'</a></li>';

That should fix your issue.

That is NOT THE SOLUTION.

Create VIRTUAL HOSTS for each of your projects. That is now and ALWAYS HAS BEEn the correct solution.

Here is how to do it

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corbinkol, thanks for this solution. While creating virtual hosts may be the correct way to do it it's too time consuming plus you need command lines to open and save the hosts file, Windows won't let you do it just by clicking on it.

There are times when I need as many as 5 different versions of a site I'm working on and if I had to go through that whole process of creating virtual hosts for each one, well, it wouldn't be worth it. I work w/Joomla exclusively and never had any issues transferring my site to a live server.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/26/2014 08:29AM by Dimi2014.

There is clearly a problem here.

I have just installed a new WAMP installation on a new Windows 8 machine and have the same difficulty. My old installation on my XP machine DOES NOT NEED VIRTUAL HOSTS (RiggsFolly -no need to shout . I would also point out that a virgin empty loacal host page on a clean install displays the message:-

Your Projects
No projects yet.
To create a new one, just create a directory in 'www'.

No mention of virtual hosts.

I have to agree with Dimi14 and will use his solution unless I'm told that it will cause other problems or a fix is issued.

WAMP projects menu fix.

I have generated what I think is a fix for this problem.

The wampmanager.ini file in wamp root holds the [myProjectsMenu] paths in the Parameters variables. The localhost/ is not present in the path.

That project list in wampmanager.ini is dynamically created, extracted from reading the names of the project folders you create in www.

The list in the wampmanager.ini file is generated by the script refresh.php file, located in the wamp/scripts folder.

The following edit worked for me.

First, save a copy of your existing refresh.php file; to restore to in case of problems.

Search in the refresh.php script for $projectContents (around line 651 if you are using an editor with line numbering).

Update the last line below (existing) with the three below, using all three of these lines:-

651 //update by Nige M to add localhost/ to the Parameters: path value - the original line commented out and the amended line is below it
652 //$myreplacesubmenuProjects .= 'Type: item; Caption: "'.$projectContents[$i].'"; Action: run; FileName: "'.$c_navigator.'"; Parameters: "['.$projectContents][$i].'/"; Glyph: 5
653 $myreplacesubmenuProjects .= 'Type: item; Caption: "'.$projectContents[$i].'"; Action: run; FileName: "'.$c_navigator.'"; Parameters: "[localhost][$i].'/"; Glyph: 5

So, I have replaced my existing line 651 with three lines. I'm guessing that your line numbers may differ a little from mine but I don't know.

You can refresh your wampmanager.ini file by right clicking your tray icon and clicking Refresh. Or exit then restart Wamp.
You should then be able to open your projects by clicking them in the Wamp icon My Projects menu!
Your wampmanager.ini file will now have localhost/ appended to the http:// part of the Parameter.


Please add your feedback here if you have tried this fix.

By the way. My fix above is for the My Projects menu accessed by left clicking the system tray Wamp icon.

The solution from corbinkol (thanks) above is for the links on the Localhost page accessed by left clicking the system tray Wamp icon. I would suggest modifying your solution corbinkol to simplify it a little. Just modify line30 in index.php to read:

$suppress_localhost = false; //$suppress_localhost = true;

The fix is in this post [forum.wampserver.com] and has been for Months

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Thank you RiggsFolly. That was a much more useful link than the one you indicated earlier in this thread. It resolves the problem of an install that has broken links on the Localhost page and in the My Projects menu as it comes out of the box. Will it be many more Months before they are fixed?

The next release has fixes for all these issues, and lots of great new features, but I have no idea when the next release will be I am afraid.

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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-