WampServer

last night my website was working all fine and dandy, this morning i woke up and its getting time out error [i.e. i cant actually connect to it] WTF IS GOING ON?!? i didnt make any changes to it last night [other than puting some images on it]

i am hosting it from my laptop using wamp.
i am hosting this here as it seems wamp is the most likely problem [somehow]

You need to step back and think about what issue(s) may be causing the timeout. Think about each layer of the system -- i.e. is your web browser OK connecting to other sites? Do you have a firewall (i.e. McAfee or Norton) installed which may be blocking communication? Is the Apache (httpd) service actually running? Are you running any other applications or services which may be interfering with apache (i.e. another application that runs a web server?).

Start by rebooting your computer and restarting the WAMP services, to be sure you're getting a clean start. If it still isn't working, left click on the WAMP icon in the system tray, go to the Apache > Service item and confirm that "Start/Resume Service" is grayed out and Stop Service is enabled. This indicates that the httpd service is running, which is what actually serves your web pages. If it is not running, then you need to investigate the httpd log files (Left click WAMP Icon in system tray, Apache, Apache Error Log) and see why it isn't starting.

mjh_ca Wrote:
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> You need to step back and think about what
> issue(s) may be causing the timeout. Think about
> each layer of the system -- i.e. is your web
> browser OK connecting to other sites? [yes, and its not just me] Do you have
> a firewall (i.e. McAfee or Norton) installed which
> may be blocking communication?[no] Is the Apache
> (httpd) service actually running?[idk, how do i check?] Are you running
> any other applications or services which may be
> interfering with apache (i.e. another application
> that runs a web server?).[no]
>
> Start by rebooting your computer and restarting
> the WAMP services,[first thing i did] to be sure you're getting a
> clean start. If it still isn't working, left
> click on the WAMP icon in the system tray, go to
> the Apache > Service item and confirm that
> "Start/Resume Service" is grayed out and Stop
> Service is enabled. This indicates that the httpd
> service is running, which is what actually serves
> your web pages.[it is] If it is not running, then you
> need to investigate the httpd log files (Left
> click WAMP Icon in system tray, Apache, Apache
> Error Log) and see why it isn't starting.[i did that before too :/ , nothing of interest]

on a side note, in addition to the hostname not working, neither does 127.1.1.01



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/16/2009 02:05AM by Wyrda Ebrithil.

Left click WAMP Icon > Apache > Service > Test Port 80

What does this show?

your port 80 is actually used by:

server: apache/2.2.11 (Win32) PHP/5.3.0

press enter to exit..._

It's not the right address. You should use 'http://127.0.0.1/index.php'
Also make sure Skype is not running at the same time...

Florian

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random failure, its working now, might be nice to know why it wasnt, but is suppose i dont need to :/