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Hi there .... Dear Wamp Helpers,
I followed this tutorial to create a ssl virtual host; see topic link here: [forum.wampserver.com]

after making the certificates and keys I followed the steps to reconfigure apache but I'm afraid I made a mistake.
first (yesterday) I could use httpd -t to find the error. The same error was also found in the logfiles.

The message said there was an error at line 173 containing: LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

The thing was I had it uncommented like told in the manual.

So today I restarted wamp but ofcourse I still have an orange icon.
I dont have the error message anymore and httpd -t doesnt work.

So my question is: after following all the steps and without finding clear error messages what to do to solve the problem of apache not starting?

Okay you might think: why ask this?
but think about the situation I am in, namly that I followed the steps for installing ssl and changed the httpd.conf and orher directives. Before that everything worked fine.

If I check the error logs I now have this error:

Event xmlns="[schemas.microsoft.com];
- <System>
<Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">7024</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-12-31T15:30:17.606758300Z" />
<EventRecordID>6834325</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="932" ThreadID="6940" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>MyRoomPC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="param1">wampapache</Data>
<Data Name="param2">%%1</Data>
<Binary>770061006D0070006100700061006300680065000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

My first idea is to blame it to the settings I have made (regarding the tut from here ) in the httpd.conf file. (they are copied ecactly as said)
So my idea is to check if the module should be loaded, which is, the check V is visible in the wamp manager.

I can image that you would like to recommend me to start with the TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS topic but this seems a bit illogical to me; as WAMP worked fine and I only made changes heeding the ssl tut from here.
Should I still do that?

Maybe it is the port 443 it should be working on I JUST DONT KNOW.

Is there a possibility I installed the wrong openssl version?

How to know which openssl version I need?

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Hi

Until the PHP developers catch up with the OpenSSL developers, install OpenSSL 1.0.2j lite

The new OpenSSL 1.1.0 version has been changed quite a bit, and until the PHP developers can compile PHP with 1.1.0 in mind we will have to stay with version 1.0.2

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Hi,

Sorry, It was not closed until monday !

Good evening to everybody.

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I installed another version namly: Win32OpenSSL_Light-1_0_2j.exe
goes with: WampServer Version 3.0.5 32bit
My desktop is Windows 8.1


wamp icon still orange and in the windows log files I find this error:

- <Event xmlns="[schemas.microsoft.com];
- <System>
<Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">7024</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2017-01-03T09:41:47.605490100Z" />
<EventRecordID>6834478</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="932" ThreadID="5544" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>My_PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="param1">wampapache</Data>
<Data Name="param2">%%1</Data>
<Binary>770061006D0070006100700061006300680065000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

the error logs shows no errors since this start up.

Which service has not started? Is it Apache or MySQL?

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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-

Apache has not started

Is there anything useful in the Apache error log?

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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-

no the apache error log is not reporting anything ince the 29th december.

apache error log:

[Fri Dec 23 09:56:50.078019 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 66620:tid 444] AH00422: Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Fri Dec 23 09:56:55.343940 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 63588:tid 348] AH00364: Child: All worker threads have exited.
[Fri Dec 23 09:57:22.876569 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 66620:tid 444] AH00431: Parent: Forcing termination of child process 63588
[Fri Dec 23 20:36:30.059302 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 6540:tid 412] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Fri Dec 23 20:36:30.406172 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 6540:tid 412] AH00455: Apache/2.4.18 (Win32) PHP/5.6.19 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Dec 23 20:36:30.406172 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 6540:tid 412] AH00456: Apache Lounge VC14 Server built: Dec 9 2015 10:17:39
[Fri Dec 23 20:36:30.406172 2016] [core:notice] [pid 6540:tid 412] AH00094: Command line: 'A:\\wamp\\bin\\apache\\apache2.4.18\\bin\\httpd.exe -d A:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.18'
[Fri Dec 23 20:36:30.679365 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 6540:tid 412] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 800
AH00548: NameVirtualHost has no effect and will be removed in the next release A:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.18/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:17
[Fri Dec 23 20:36:31.111822 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 800:tid 340] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Fri Dec 23 20:36:31.157199 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 800:tid 340] AH00354: Child: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Sat Dec 24 22:01:44.151918 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 6540:tid 412] AH00422: Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Sat Dec 24 22:01:52.999332 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 800:tid 340] AH00364: Child: All worker threads have exited.
[Sat Dec 24 22:02:04.296806 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 6540:tid 412] AH00430: Parent: Child process 800 exited successfully.
[Sun Dec 25 10:01:14.833037 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 1048:tid 420] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sun Dec 25 10:01:14.983861 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 1048:tid 420] AH00455: Apache/2.4.18 (Win32) PHP/5.6.19 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Dec 25 10:01:14.983861 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 1048:tid 420] AH00456: Apache Lounge VC14 Server built: Dec 9 2015 10:17:39
[Sun Dec 25 10:01:14.983861 2016] [core:notice] [pid 1048:tid 420] AH00094: Command line: 'A:\\wamp\\bin\\apache\\apache2.4.18\\bin\\httpd.exe -d A:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.18'
[Sun Dec 25 10:01:14.993869 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 1048:tid 420] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 2372
AH00548: NameVirtualHost has no effect and will be removed in the next release A:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.18/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:17
[Sun Dec 25 10:01:15.423897 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 2372:tid 356] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sun Dec 25 10:01:15.453842 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 2372:tid 356] AH00354: Child: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Sun Dec 25 10:16:23.851361 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 1048:tid 420] AH00422: Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Sun Dec 25 10:16:25.853291 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 2372:tid 356] AH00364: Child: All worker threads have exited.
[Sun Dec 25 10:16:25.886312 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 1048:tid 420] AH00430: Parent: Child process 2372 exited successfully.
[Sun Dec 25 10:38:06.410850 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 7200:tid 444] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sun Dec 25 10:38:06.438792 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7200:tid 444] AH00455: Apache/2.4.18 (Win32) PHP/5.6.19 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Dec 25 10:38:06.438792 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7200:tid 444] AH00456: Apache Lounge VC14 Server built: Dec 9 2015 10:17:39
[Sun Dec 25 10:38:06.438792 2016] [core:notice] [pid 7200:tid 444] AH00094: Command line: 'A:\\wamp\\bin\\apache\\apache2.4.18\\bin\\httpd.exe -d A:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.18'
[Sun Dec 25 10:38:06.471250 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7200:tid 444] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 5904
AH00548: NameVirtualHost has no effect and will be removed in the next release A:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.18/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:17
[Sun Dec 25 10:38:06.841620 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 5904:tid 344] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sun Dec 25 10:38:06.872250 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 5904:tid 344] AH00354: Child: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Wed Dec 28 11:17:25.972242 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7200:tid 444] AH00422: Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Wed Dec 28 11:17:28.416741 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 5904:tid 344] AH00364: Child: All worker threads have exited.
[Wed Dec 28 11:17:34.199156 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7200:tid 444] AH00430: Parent: Child process 5904 exited successfully.
[Wed Dec 28 11:22:33.451943 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 7792:tid 412] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed Dec 28 11:22:33.759815 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7792:tid 412] AH00455: Apache/2.4.18 (Win32) PHP/5.6.19 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Dec 28 11:22:33.759815 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7792:tid 412] AH00456: Apache Lounge VC14 Server built: Dec 9 2015 10:17:39
[Wed Dec 28 11:22:33.759815 2016] [core:notice] [pid 7792:tid 412] AH00094: Command line: 'A:\\wamp\\bin\\apache\\apache2.4.18\\bin\\httpd.exe -d A:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.18'
[Wed Dec 28 11:22:33.817395 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7792:tid 412] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 3456
AH00548: NameVirtualHost has no effect and will be removed in the next release A:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.18/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:17
[Wed Dec 28 11:22:34.197008 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 3456:tid 336] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed Dec 28 11:22:34.239038 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 3456:tid 336] AH00354: Child: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Thu Dec 29 20:32:49.188379 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7792:tid 412] AH00422: Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Thu Dec 29 20:32:51.552392 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 3456:tid 336] AH00364: Child: All worker threads have exited.
[Thu Dec 29 20:32:53.901948 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7792:tid 412] AH00430: Parent: Child process 3456 exited successfully.

for the record I have some outputs that might be a help:

in the submenu tools I checked the https syntax:
httpd.exe: Syntax error on line 174 of A:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.18/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load modules/mod_ssl.so into server: Het besturingssysteem kan %1 niet uitvoeren. (operating system cant execute %1)

and I checked the state of services:

State of services:

The service 'wampapache' is NOT started
EXIT error code:1066
Help message for error code 1066 is:
De service heeft een servicespecifieke foutcode geretourneerd.
(service has returned a server specific errorcode )

The service 'wampmysqld' is started

The service 'dnscache' is started

WampServer (Apache, PHP and MySQL) will not function properly if any service
'wampapache'
'wampmysqld'
'dnscache'
is not started.

What I would like to know is where OPENSSL should be placed, I now have it on the same level as wamp; like this:

A:\OpenSSL-Win32
A:\wamp

could it be that it has to be placed in a specific directory?