WampServer

Hi everyone, big newbie here.

My very old laptop (Vista I think) died and I didn't have backups of my databases (in particular my wordpress databases and plugins). However the HD was fine so I have all the old data.

I bought a new laptop (Win8) and I believe I need to run wampserver from the old HD in order to backup the old databases. Otherwise weeks of work would be lost!

When trying to launch wampserver from the old HD I get an error: "Exception in module wampserver.exe at 000F15A0. Could not execute run action: specified file could not be found"

Is there a way to fix this? Or another way to backup my old databases?

Thanks for your help!

First make sure you have these DLL's installed on your new system

Please make sure you have the latest version of all of these Microsoft C++ Redistributable runtime libraries.

The 2008 Redist is used by wampmanager
The 2010 Redist is used by Apache
The 2012 Redist is used by Apache

FOR WAMP 32bit
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) [www.microsoft.com]
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) [www.microsoft.com]

If you are using WampServer 2.4
Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 [www.microsoft.com]
And select vcredist_x86.exe


FOR WAMP 64bit
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x64) [www.microsoft.com]
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64) [www.microsoft.com]
If you are using WampServer 2.4
Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 [www.microsoft.com]
And select vcredist_x64.exe

Unfortunately I am still getting the same error message.

Wampserver is version 2.2

Simplest solution would be to copy from your backup to the Drive letter you had this WAMP installed onto. Then all the configs will point to the right place.

Then run wampmanager from the ?:\wamp folder

Then run wampmanager->MYSQL->Service->Install Service
Then run wampmanager->Apache->Service->Install Service

The try starting all the services.


If that works you should be good to go and all your data should still be there. You dont even have to install a new WAMPServer

Cool, now wampserver launches. However the tray icon stays red, so the browser tells me it can't connect to localhost (or 127.0.0.1).

I'm guessing I have to edit one of the .conf files?

EDIT: actually when I tried running the MySQL Install service, nothing happened. Whereas the Apache one launched a cmd window and seemed to execute just fine. So I guess there was a failure to install MySQL...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2013 10:49PM by forme.

there is a small mistake in the above package list.

Regardless of the architecture of the OS , wampmanager.exe needs

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) [www.microsoft.com]

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



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2013 10:48PM by stevenmartin99.

Never mind, I tried this again and it worked!
Thank you very much.