WampServer

Hi all,

I recently installed 64 bit WAMP 3.1.9 on Windows 8.1 and have been having trouble with it. From the beginning, I noticed that the WAMP icon was yellow and that only 2 of 3 services were running. I followed the suggestion of stopping and starting the services, plus restarting the computer (for good measure), multiple times, and nothing changed. I was able to use MariaDB independently and went ahead and set up some databases and users via the command line, so I guessed that the problem was on the Apache/PHP side. To verify this, I wrote a file called “test.php,” put it in the www folder, and tried to pull up localhost/test.php in my web browser. No luck. After checking the PHP error log, I saw this:



[07-Aug-2019 06:02:47 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/curl (The specified module could not be found.), c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/php_curl.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0
[07-Aug-2019 06:03:03 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/curl (The specified module could not be found.), c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/php_curl.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0
[07-Aug-2019 06:08:42 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/curl (The specified module could not be found.), c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/php_curl.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0
[07-Aug-2019 06:08:49 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/curl (The specified module could not be found.), c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/php_curl.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0
[07-Aug-2019 06:19:29 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/curl (The specified module could not be found.), c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/php_curl.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0
[07-Aug-2019 06:19:36 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/curl (The specified module could not be found.), c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/php_curl.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0
[07-Aug-2019 06:20:22 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/curl (The specified module could not be found.), c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/php_curl.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0
[07-Aug-2019 06:20:22 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/curl (The specified module could not be found.), c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/php_curl.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0
[07-Aug-2019 06:21:58 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/curl (The specified module could not be found.), c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/php_curl.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0
[07-Aug-2019 06:21:58 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/curl (The specified module could not be found.), c:/wamp64/bin/php/php7.2.18/ext/php_curl.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0
[07-Aug-2019 08:07:21 UTC] PHP Warning: mysqli::__construct(): (HY000/2002): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
in C:\wamp64\www\testmysql.php on line 10
[07-Aug-2019 08:07:21 UTC] PHP Stack trace:
[07-Aug-2019 08:07:21 UTC] PHP 1. {main}() C:\wamp64\www\testmysql.php:0
[07-Aug-2019 08:07:21 UTC] PHP 2. mysqli->__construct() C:\wamp64\www\testmysql.php:10



Any help with this situation will be greatly appreciated!

Hi,

See TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS

Use integrated tools : Right-Click -> Tools
- Test port 80
- Check state of services

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Documentation Apache - Documentation PHP - Documentation MySQL - Wampserver install files & addons

Did the "state of services" check and got this:

State of services:

The service 'wampapache64' is started

The service 'wampmysqld64' is not RUNNING nor STOPPED.
[SC] EnumQueryServicesStatus:OpenService failure(s) 1060 :
The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
********* The service 'wampmysqld64' does not exist ********

The service 'wampmariadb64' is started

The service 'dnscache' is started

WampServer (Apache, PHP and MySQL) will not function properly if any service
'wampapache64'
'wampmysqld64'
'wampmariadb64'
'dnscache'
is not started.

Hi,

Disable MySQL and use MariaDB instead.
See Right-Click -> MySQL - MariaDB
or file wamp(64)/mariadb_mysql.txt

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Documentation Apache - Documentation PHP - Documentation MySQL - Wampserver install files & addons

It worked! Thank you!