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Hey guys,

Just started using WAMP for the first time (don't know why I haven't discovered it much sooner, it's a godsend), and I'm finding something interesting. I'm not sure if it's a bug, or something from my end, but I'm hoping someone could shed some light on the issue. It's nothing major, but someone might find it annoying - unless I'm the only one experiencing this, in which case I'm hoping someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong.

So, I have a little Joomla 3 installation in a subfolder I made inside the www folder, so the path looks like this: wamp\www\soundmute (it's a project name).

I haven't replaced any of WAMP's files inside the www folder, since I think the page has some very useful information.

Anyway, I'm finding that the links to my project isn't working. It's missing localhost/ at the beginning, like in this image:



For everything else (phpinfo, myphpadmin, etc), it's working as it should. But the link on the project (soundmute in the picture) leads to "soundmute", instead of "localhost/soundmute".
The link from the tray icon (inside My Projects) is also doing the same thing, and both lead to this:



If I type localhost/ in front of soundmute, then it works.

Is this a bug in WAMP or something with my settings here?

Hi,

Read calmly, with great attention the excellent article of RiggsFolly entitled:
WAMPServer 2.5 The Homepage, Your Projects Menu and the need for Virtual Hosts

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Hi! Thank you so much for that, it works now. I've bookmarked that post for future reference. It should be sticky or something (if it isn't already).

A quick question, though: will the vhost file be overwritten if WAMP updates?

Thanks again. Cheers!

Hi,

Yes. Read Installing a new release of WAMPServer
In this, there is :

NEVER INSTALL A NEW RELEASE OF WAMPServer over an existing installation

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Thank you for your replies. I will keep a note of all that. I'm bookmarking all of that for future reference, until I get the hang of things.

Guess I already did a beginner's mistake for installing WAMP in Program Files (on my E drive, not C - still has spaces though). But so far it seems to be working fine. I've already found I needed to turn on rewrite_module for Joomla's SEO-friendly links to work.

Thanks again.

You can install WAMPServer on any Drive you like C: D: E: but it is best to NOT have spaces in any folder name you install it into or create for your sites. Also network drives are a bit tricky so best not do that.

PS: You cannot easily move it from say C: to D:. Its best to backup then uninstall and then reinstall on another drive then copy over your sites and then restore your databases..

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