WampServer

I was getting "stopped working" APPCRASH messages all the time from WAMP tray menu; on startup, on php version switch, on refresh -- I could not switch PHP versions at all. I really needed to today, so I looked at why it was happening.

It's because the tray menu ALWAYS uses PHP 5.3.0, but sometimes it tries to load php.ini from the addon version you are using, so it loads old (or new) .dll files... because of this, the php-cli or php-win exe crashes.

Problems...

c:\wamp\wampmanager.tpl - some incorrect calls to php
c:\wamp\scripts\refresh.php - generates more incorrect calls to php

Fixes...

In both files, find any lines that reference $c_phpCli OR $c_phpExe and make sure the "Parameters" part begins with "-c ."

EXAMPLE in wampmanager.tpl...

Action: run; FileName: "${c_phpCli}";Parameters: "-c . refresh.php";WorkingDir: "${c_installDir}/scripts"; Flags: waituntilterminated


EXAMPLE in refresh.php...

Action: run; FileName: "'.$c_phpCli.'";Parameters: "-c . refresh.php";WorkingDir: "'.$c_installDir.'/scripts"; Flags: waituntilterminated


All you should need to do now is RIGHT-CLICK on the tray menu and select 'Refresh'.


I hope this can be fixed in the wamp download files.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/15/2010 12:57AM by bovineaux.

I think after this fix you end up with a bad php.ini in c:\wamp\bin\apache\{version}\bin\php.ini - my extension_dir was always pointing to 5.3.0

I just changed it manually and restarted Apache but I might look at fixing it proper later