WampServer

Hello, I'm a newbie to Wampserver having just installed it on my laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium.
The icon on the system tray is red, Port 80 is being used by Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 and local host is showing "Not Found" webpage. I have read other threads about uninstalling IIS and Turned Off Windows feature in Control Panel, which I've done. I've also changed Skype so that it isn't using Port 80 as an alternative but assume that it isn't the problem.

Can someone tell me how to get Wampserver up and running please?

Regards Don

Open services.msc ( click Start > type in. "services.msc" )

Depending on your IIS version you will have one of the following services:

Web Deployment OR Worldwide Publishing

Right click the service name > properties

Press "Stop" and change the startup type to "Disabled"

Press "Apply" and "Ok"

Then use the port tester to see if it is still being used by IIS.

If its free , try restarting wamp, if it doesn't go green try reinstalling the service.

Left click wamp tray icon > Apache > Service > Remove Service

Left click wamp tray icon > Apache > Service > Install Service

Left click wamp tray icon > Restart all Services


Note: you said the icon is Res so it may turn to orange once you perform this. That will mean that Apache is running but that MySQL is also blocked. A common reason is that you maybe have MySQL installed already.

To check this - repeat the steps above except look for a service called "MySQL"

Disable it as above and then carry on following the steps above using the MySQL menu instead of Apache to reinstall the service.
( MySQL does not have a port tester so skip this step)

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



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2012 06:33AM by stevenmartin99.

Hello Steven and thanks for your reply. I'm going to be specific about what I've done as this is very foreign to me and therefore if I spell everything out if may be easy for someone to resolve.

I did the following:

Opened Services.msc, found Web Development Agent Service (Not Web Development or Worldwide Publishing) and Stopped and Disabled the service.

Port tester is still showing Port 80 used by HTTPAPI/2.0

Wampserver icon is still red and the Restart didn't change anything

A few other things:
- the version of Wampserver I installed was Wampserver
Wampserver (64 bits & PHP 5.3) 2.2E

- I may not have completely removed IIS. Is there a way of telling if it has been uninstalled?

- I have uninstalled and reinstalled but still get the same result.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Regards Don

Click start > type in cmd

Don't press enter- instead right click cmd
In the list and press. Run as administrator

In the console type

Net stop http (press enter)

If prompted press Y

Try the port tester again

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

Hello Steven

Loaded CMD Prompt as Administrator and stopped:

- windows media player Network Sharing Services
- UPnP Device Host
- SSDP discovery
- Print Spooler
- HomeGroup provider
- Function Discovery Resource Publication
- Function Discovery Provider Host
- HTTP

Then went back to WampServer icon on the Taskbar and ran the port tester and still says Port 80 is being used by Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0. I also clicked on Apache Install Service and got the following message. "Can not install the Apache service, please stop the application (presumably Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0) and try again".

Any further suggestions?

Regards Don

In the cmd console type

Netstat -aon | findstr :80

Take a screen shot and email it to me

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