WampServer

Hello, I am new to WAMP, and inherited a wamp / wordpress server from a previous SysAdmin at work who is gone. We are trying to upgrade it for the first time in years.

I was able to upgrade the wordpress version to 6.8.3 in the web console.

Now I'm trying to upgrade the wamp site components for the first time and running into some issues.

The server is running:

Windows server 2019
Wamp 3.2.9
apache2 2.4.41
php 7.4.30
MariaDB 10.4.10



When I Upgrade the WampServer main app from 3.2.9 -> 3.3.8, the results are the server would not start with some php errors about parenthesized expressions, so i fixed 3 of those, and now the site starts with GREEN wamp icon.

But I am met with a new gray Wampserver splash screen that shows the server info. I can add a virtual host, and it shows My existing virtualhost, but I cannot get to my previous site contents. At the bottom is a link to this forum that brought me here. I'm not sure what to do to recover my site contents or what I did wrong. Maybe should I try a different Wamp version or upgrade all of the other components at once?

The Green wamp menu by my clock shows one error "localhost does not exist". I think this stems from the previous SysAdmin here modified the apache httpd-vhosts.conf to change its ServerName to be its web URL campus.albion.edu, but that was working before.

Hi,

See item 9 of TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS

The first lines of httpd-vhosts.conf must be :

# Virtual Hosts
#
<VirtualHost _default_:80>
  ServerName localhost
  DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www"
  <Directory "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/">
    Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Require local
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#

Try to use the PHP version used before.

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