WampServer

I have installed WAMP server. But the icon doesn't turn green. I have tried to resolve this issue with different suggestions posted in the forums but still wont work.

Can someone please check the intallation on my machine through teamviewer ?

Thank you.

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If the wampmanager icon is not GREEN then one of the services ( Apache(wampapache)/MySQL(wampmysqld) ) has not started properly.

How to tell which service is not running if the wampmanager icon is orange.

Left click the wampmanager icon to reveal the menu-> Apache -> Service
If the Start/Resume service menu is Green then Apache IS NOT running.

Left click the wampmanager icon to reveal the menu-> MySQL -> Service
If the Start/Resume service menu is Green then MySQL IS NOT running.

If Apache is the service that is not running it is normally, but not always, because something else has captured port 80.

Now do,
Left click the wampmanager icon to reveal the menu-> Apache -> Service -> Test port 80
This will launch a command window and display some information about what, if anything is using port 80.

Whatever it is should be re-configured to not use port 80 or uninstalled if you are not using it.

If port 80 is not the problem look for errors in the appropriate error log ( use the wamp manager menus to view the error logs )

If these do not exists or show no errors then also check the Windows Event Viewer
Start -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer
And look in the 'Windows Logs' -> Application' section accessed from the menu on the left of the dialog for error messages from Apache and or MySQL.


How to Configure SKYPE so it does not require port 80 or 443
( This does not appear to be necessary on recent versions i.e. after march 2014 )

Run SKYPE
then using the menus do this:
Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Connection
Un-Check the checkbox next to 'Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incomming connections'
Now restart SKYPE for these changes to take effect.

If you are running Windows 8 SKYPE comes as a tiled app and this cannot ( as yet ) be configured in this way.
However if you uninstall the SKYPE app and install SKYPE in the old way, you can reconfigure it, and it works just as well.

How to Configure Team Viewer so it does not require port 80 or 443
Run TV
Extras -> Options -> Advanced -> Press the Advanced Button -> Advanced Network Connections
Check the checkbox saying [ Dont use incomming port 80 (recommended for web servers only )

If the problem is not obvious then post the errors here

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(Windows 10 Pro 64bit) (Wampserver 3.3.4 64bit) Aestan Tray Menu 3.2.5.4
<Apache versions MULTIPE> <PHP versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Versions MULTIPLE>
<MariaDB versions MULTIPLE> <phpMyAdmin versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Workbench 8.0.23>
Read The Manuals Apache -- MySQL -- PHP -- phpMyAdmin
Get your Apache/MySQL/mariaDB/PHP ADDONs here from the WAMPServer alternate Repo
-X-X-X- Backup your databases regularly Here is How dont regret it later! Yes even when developing -X-X-X-

Port 80 seems to be the issue because the

Start/Resume service menu is Green then Apache IS NOT running.

I stopped the IIS Service and tested the port 80 which now shows something like

Port 80 is actually used by

Server Microsoft HTTP API/2.0

Yea IIS usually comes with all sorts of other stuff that uses port 80.


Try this

netstat -aon | find ":80"


tasklist /fi "PID eq 999"

replacing 999 with the PID number from the previous command that is using port 80. the PID is the number in the last column of the output from above command.


These are things I know about that may use port 80 and may of may not be directly related to IIS installations

1. IIS
2. Web Deploy
3. MS Sql Server Reporting service.
4. BranchCache ( Windows 8.1 )

There may well be others.

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(Windows 10 Pro 64bit) (Wampserver 3.3.4 64bit) Aestan Tray Menu 3.2.5.4
<Apache versions MULTIPE> <PHP versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Versions MULTIPLE>
<MariaDB versions MULTIPLE> <phpMyAdmin versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Workbench 8.0.23>
Read The Manuals Apache -- MySQL -- PHP -- phpMyAdmin
Get your Apache/MySQL/mariaDB/PHP ADDONs here from the WAMPServer alternate Repo
-X-X-X- Backup your databases regularly Here is How dont regret it later! Yes even when developing -X-X-X-

Thanks for the quick reply..

When I run the command

netstat -aon | find ":80"

it shows..

TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0 ESTABLISHED 4

Whc means PID is 4 and TCP is using port 80.

Now tht I have found this.. Wht do I do next ?

PID 4 is normally the OS, which normally means one of the components of IIS. Have you checked for the other 3 Apps I mentioned in the previous post?

Look in Windows Services

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(Windows 10 Pro 64bit) (Wampserver 3.3.4 64bit) Aestan Tray Menu 3.2.5.4
<Apache versions MULTIPE> <PHP versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Versions MULTIPLE>
<MariaDB versions MULTIPLE> <phpMyAdmin versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Workbench 8.0.23>
Read The Manuals Apache -- MySQL -- PHP -- phpMyAdmin
Get your Apache/MySQL/mariaDB/PHP ADDONs here from the WAMPServer alternate Repo
-X-X-X- Backup your databases regularly Here is How dont regret it later! Yes even when developing -X-X-X-

Hi,

To find what correspond to a PID, in a command line type :

tasklist /FO LIST /V /FI "PID eq 4"

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The trouble with that is you are likely to get this as a responce

Image Name:   System
PID:          4
Session Name: Services
Session#:     0
Mem Usage:    9,556 K
Status:       Unknown
User Name:    N/A
CPU Time:     0:00:43
Window Title: N/A

Which is not very helpful.

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(Windows 10 Pro 64bit) (Wampserver 3.3.4 64bit) Aestan Tray Menu 3.2.5.4
<Apache versions MULTIPE> <PHP versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Versions MULTIPLE>
<MariaDB versions MULTIPLE> <phpMyAdmin versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Workbench 8.0.23>
Read The Manuals Apache -- MySQL -- PHP -- phpMyAdmin
Get your Apache/MySQL/mariaDB/PHP ADDONs here from the WAMPServer alternate Repo
-X-X-X- Backup your databases regularly Here is How dont regret it later! Yes even when developing -X-X-X-

Hi,

There is useful to know that this is a service, just like wampapache.
And it is more convenient and faster than going to see in the Task Manager.

Nom de l'image:      httpd.exe
PID:                 2072
Nom de la session:   Services
Numéro de session:   0
Utilisation mémoire: 17 152 Ko
État:                Unknown
Nom d'utilisateur:   AUTORITE NT\Système
Temps processeur:    0:00:00
Titre de la fenêtre: N/A

I use tasklist in conjunction with netstat (besides fsockopen) to see what the process is running on port 80.

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