WampServer

I am taking a web design class for php and MySql. We downloaded WampServer with MySql and Apache and made our own computer a server using localhost. I had to change from localhost to localhost:8888 because something else was using localhost. All worked fine for about 3 weeks. I shut down Friday night and updates were installed. When I booted up Saturday, could no longer get localhost:8888. I.E. returns message "Internet Explorer cannot display the web page". I did a system restore to before the updates but that didn't help. I cannot even open phpMyAdmin to work on the database. Don't know what to do next. Help.

try open file hosts in folder C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc and delete anything in there and have only this line and nothing else

127.0.0.1 localhost

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Thanks for answering my problem. I checked the hosts file as indicated and there was a lot of text and also 127.0.0.1 but it was all commented out with #. I removed the # from the 127..... line and my browser lost all color and I still got the I.E. could not display message. I am not sure what happened as I could use WampServer one day and couldn't the next (after a shutdown).

I have a laptop with Vista and do not have this problem but really wanted to use my Windows 7 desktop.

best guess is you have auto update on which block wamp after updated, so try to use System Restore to go back the day before having problem

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In reading thru the forum questions I notice others are having the same problem I am getting WamServer to work on a Windows 7 computer. I have tried all the suggestions given to others in the forum and still no luck getting this to work. It seems something happened about a month ago. The icon looks like all is O.K. but cannot access. I am doing my work on another computer (Vista) but really wanted to use this newer computer.

add me to msn and ill take a look.

its probably as easy fix

Steven Martin
stevenmartin99@gmail.com
stevenmartin99@hotmail.com
PampServer.com - [pampserver.com]

"add me to msn and ill take a look. "

I don't know what this means.

guess u dont have MSN then

Steven Martin
stevenmartin99@gmail.com
stevenmartin99@hotmail.com
PampServer.com - [pampserver.com]

Well, yes, I probably have MSN just don't know what to do with it. A search turns up MSN sports, MSN Money, MSN entertainment, MSN Hotmail, MSN. I really haven't used any of those. I signed up for Windows Live but don't use that either.