WampServer

I've been having issues and I don't know when or why this started cropping up. I've been working on creating a few WordPress websites on and off and I'm not even sure how long this has been going on.

The first I noticed was the folder icons in my projects list were broken links and I think the font is the default browser font ... it's been so long, I don't remember what it used to be, but it just doesn't look right.

I was looking for a screenshot of what it should look like and now I'm wondering if I'm not even seeing the right screen. When I type in localhost into my browser, I get my list of projects ... not the typical home page. Like I said, I'm not sure how long it's been this way and I don't think I even realized it's not as it should be!

Another thing I noticed recently is my (WordPress) sites started loading really slow.

Everything was still usable so I never did the troubleshooting for it until tonight. I did find a fix for the folder icons, but now I'm finding bigger issues.

Tonight I found that I get an INTERNAL SERVER ERROR when I try to access phpMyAdmin.

So anyway, it seems like a lot of things are messed up and I'm wondering if I should just reinstall.

If so, what steps do I take and will I need to backup databases and such to make sure they're still usable? Um ... I don't think I can even access them at this point!

Any help is much appreciated!

Reinstalling should be the last thing you try, not the first.


Look in the error logs, that 'php error log', 'Apache error log', 'mysql error log' even the Windows Event Viewer for messages from APache or Mysql.

Somthing in one of those must give a clue to the problem

My PHP error log has nothing in it

Apache has A LOT of errors from two years ago on. Here's the last 10 lines:

[Sat Oct 05 17:42:45 2013] [warn] The Alias directive in C:/wamp/alias/phpmyadmin.conf at line 1 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
[Sat Oct 05 17:42:46 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) PHP/5.3.4 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Oct 05 17:42:46 2013] [notice] Server built: Oct 24 2010 13:33:15
[Sat Oct 05 17:42:46 2013] [notice] Parent: Created child process 7724
[Sat Oct 05 17:42:46 2013] [warn] The Alias directive in C:/wamp/alias/phpmyadmin.conf at line 1 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
[Sat Oct 05 17:42:46 2013] [warn] The Alias directive in C:/wamp/alias/phpmyadmin.conf at line 1 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
[Sat Oct 05 17:42:47 2013] [notice] Child 7724: Child process is running
[Sat Oct 05 17:42:47 2013] [notice] Child 7724: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sat Oct 05 17:42:47 2013] [notice] Child 7724: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Sat Oct 05 17:42:47 2013] [notice] Child 7724: Starting thread to listen on port 80.


mysql has a bunch, but not nearly as many

131005 17:42:47 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
131005 17:42:47 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 44293
131005 17:42:47 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
131005 17:42:47 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.1.53-community-log' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL)


Versions:

WAMPserver 2.1
Apache 2.2.17
PHP 5.3.4
mySQL 5.1.53


Thank you for your help.

It sounds like you may have deleted the index.php file from the c:\wamp\www folder.

Thats the file that creates the WampServer home page.

If thats the case here is one that will probably work, [derp.co.uk]
put it in or recreate c:\wamp\www\index.php
(although be careful, dont overwrite one of your website files )

Oh, wow ... I'm not sure how/when that happened. That fixed the problem with localhost not loading properly. FYI: Your file did not work for me, but I found one to download here and that worked: [forum.wampserver.com]

I was able to also fix my access to phpMyAdmin by editing phpmyadmin.conf back to its original state. I must have been mucking around in there previously - I don't remember why though.

Although I don't seem to be having issues at this point, I noticed this in my log - should I do something to fix it?

[Mon Oct 07 13:16:30 2013] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] configuration error: couldn't perform authentication. AuthType not set!: /phpmyadmin/

Two more questions, if I may ...
1. Should I ever clear the logs? My Apache and Access logs are getting quite large.
2. Should I upgrade to the latest WampServer (I'm currently using 2.1). If so, is it difficult to do without breaking things, and what are the benefits?

Thank you so much for your help!

1. Logs. Yes often. Stop all services and delete them all. They will get re-created when you restart all services.

2.Latest version. Only if you need to.

Thank you!