WampServer

OK, I know I'm going to reply to myself, but I found an alternative that works under Vista x64 flawlessly.

It's called XAMPP and you can get it at [www.apachefriends.org] .

I got it working in under 60 seconds and it works flawlessly. You also have an option of not installing apache and mysql as a service and starting them from the control panel. Check it out and see if you like it!

I am delighted about the new wampserver 2 features.
But exactly the same problem here with Win Vista Business 64 bit. So the x64 is making the difference. This situation is highly impractical. Admins, would you please fix this bug? It's a show stopper...
Many thanks.

Likewise, been using Wamp for a couple of years now on my old XP machine. Got a brand new PC on Monday with Vista 64 bit on - so we're talking completely fresh and clean install. Installed Wamp..

It runs fine, can load localhost, firewall is not blocking, and I can see the systray icon - and hovering over the systray icon the "popup" tooltip works saying "All service running". But any attempt to left/right click on this results in nothing happening - no menus or anything come up.

Thanks for the XAMPP alternative suggestion, aszlej - I will use that as a "temporary alternative" until WAMP is fixed for Vista 64 bit

- Azzer.

Hello All,

This was a perplexing problem as I originally downloaded WAMP on my computer running Vista Ultimate 64 bit and by choosing the default directory of "c:\wamp" it worked fine...


However, I wanted to move it to the "c:\Program Files (x86)" directory because I like to keep my program installations clean... When I did this, after trying to start the WAMP program, I got an error stating that there was a problem in line 428 of the php.ini file and the system tray icon stopped working (as reported above)... So I figured it was a path problem...




Here is what I did to fix it...

First of all, kill off the running WAMP services by navigating to where you installed WAMP and double click uninstall_services.bat...

1. Goto Start>All Programs>Accessories and RIGHT click notepad.exe and choose "Run As Aministrator"

2. Click File>Open and navigate to your WAMP installation directory... in my case it was "C:\Program Files (x86)/wamp" directory.

3. Click the "Text Document (*.txt)" drop down box and select "All Files (*.*)"

4. Find the file "wampmanager.conf" and click open

5. Edit the fourth line down in the file that starts with installDir = and enclose the path with " "

Example: installDir = "C:/Program Files (x86)/wamp"

6. Click File>Save

That fixed my systray icon...

To fix the php error...

1. Do not close the notepad.exe editor from above (if you did, make sure you re-open it Run As Administrator"

2. Navigate to your WAMP directory then to the following path - bin\php\php5.2.5

Example on my system: C:\Program Files (x86)\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.5

3. Again, make sure to change Text Document (*.txt)" drop down box and select "All Files (*.*)"

4. Now open the file called php.ini and click Edit>Find ... In the search box type: error_log.php (this is line 428) and enclose the path in " " and save the file...

Example: error_log = "C:/Program Files (x86)/wamp/logs/php_error.log"

That fixed my php error on program start...

Now just restart the WAMP server ... should work!


A couple of notes... When I uninstalled the first instance of WAMP, it left a folder C:\WAMP that I deleted by hand...

Secondly, (this was probably not necessary but I did it anyway, I edited my registry and looked for all C:\wamp keys and got rid of them)....

I hope this helps... I have a friend using another machine that has the same problem will test it tonight and let you know if there were any problems...

Darrell

This is indeed a show stopper for me. I've been forced to uninstall Wampserver, despite it being the best package I've found (I just don't like XAMPP) - simply because I can't do anything with it without having access to the traymenu.

Perhaps a solution in the short term would be to add Start Menu links to operate at least the basic functionality of Wampserver - then it would be usable for those of us who run Vista x64.

Damn, this is affecting me too - Vista x64 Ultimate.

Tried darrell9026's suggestions above to no avail - does anyone know if the devs actually read their own forum or should I just get Xampp installed?

Hello Again...

I had another friend having trouble with Vista Ultimate 64 - systray icon appeared in lower left corner, but couldnt click on it it - greyed out...

(See my post above for my fix)... I was using Explorer as the default browser with WAMP installed in a non-default directory...

On my friends Vista Machine 64 bit, he isntalled wamp in the default C:\wamp directory, however he set his default browser to firefox during the installation...

Fixed his systray icon within 1 minute... The problem is the wampmanager.conf paths (similar to my above post)...

Just make sure your system is not running wampmanger or any of the services before making your changes...

To do this, go to the directory where you installed WAMP... (It defaults to c:\wamp...)

Double click the "uninstall_services.bat" icon to shut down wampmanger and stop all services...

Now (important) you must open notepad as an Administrator....

1. Goto Start>All Programs>Accessories and RIGHT click notepad.exe and choose "Run As Aministrator"

2. Click File>Open and navigate to your WAMP installation directory... "C:\wamp" directory (if you have a default install.)

3. Click the "Text Document (*.txt)" drop down box and select "All Files (*.*)"

4. Find the file "wampmanager.conf" and click open

5. Edit the fourth line down in the file that starts with installDir = and enclose the path with " "

Example: installDir = "C:/wamp" (really not necessary in the default install but wont hurt)

6. Edit the fifth line down with the file that starts navigator and enclose path in quotes

Example: navigator = "c:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe"

6. Click File>Save

7. Restart your wamp server ... It should work...

It seems like the configuration files are not liking something in the path commands (probably the ())... Anyway, I always enclose paths in quotes so you dont have to worry about escaping quirky characters... If you see any other paths without quotes, try enclosing them in quotes and saving the file...

Hope this helps...

darrell9026 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Hello Again...
>
> I had another friend having trouble with Vista
> Ultimate 64 - systray icon appeared in lower left
> corner, but couldnt click on it it - greyed
> out...
>
> (See my post above for my fix)... I was using
> Explorer as the default browser with WAMP
> installed in a non-default directory...
>
> On my friends Vista Machine 64 bit, he isntalled
> wamp in the default C:\wamp directory, however he
> set his default browser to firefox during the
> installation...
>
> Fixed his systray icon within 1 minute... The
> problem is the wampmanager.conf paths (similar to
> my above post)...
>
> Just make sure your system is not running
> wampmanger or any of the services before making
> your changes...
>
> To do this, go to the directory where you
> installed WAMP... (It defaults to c:\wamp...)
>
> Double click the "uninstall_services.bat" icon to
> shut down wampmanger and stop all services...
>
> Now (important) you must open notepad as an
> Administrator....
>
> 1. Goto Start>All Programs>Accessories and RIGHT
> click notepad.exe and choose "Run As Aministrator"
>
>
> 2. Click File>Open and navigate to your WAMP
> installation directory... "C:\wamp" directory (if
> you have a default install.)
>
> 3. Click the "Text Document (*.txt)" drop down box
> and select "All Files (*.*)"
>
> 4. Find the file "wampmanager.conf" and click open
>
>
> 5. Edit the fourth line down in the file that
> starts with installDir = and enclose the path with
> " "
>
> Example: installDir = "C:/wamp" (really not
> necessary in the default install but wont hurt)
>
> 6. Edit the fifth line down with the file that
> starts navigator and enclose path in quotes
>
> Example: navigator = "c:\Program Files
> (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe"
>
> 6. Click File>Save
>
> 7. Restart your wamp server ... It should work...
>
> It seems like the configuration files are not
> liking something in the path commands (probably
> the ())... Anyway, I always enclose paths in
> quotes so you dont have to worry about escaping
> quirky characters... If you see any other paths
> without quotes, try enclosing them in quotes and
> saving the file...
>
> Hope this helps...




well done, your a star, i can now start using vist as my main operating system, could really do with the mods sorting this issue so others dont have the same issue.

wd darrell9026 :-), you reallly are a star

)gutted,

My tray icon now works but my "localhost" and "phpmyadmin" dont work,
anyone got any ideas?)

EDIT:
lol, i forgot to install the services, it all works now



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/16/2007 12:55PM by Paul1980.

Thanks darrell9026, you're a legend.

Yup, fixed it, well done & thanks darrell9026... back to WAMP I come

Had the same problem with Vista x64, Darrell's solution fixed it right up, CHEERS!

-Tony

well, it's a serious design flaw...
anyone should know by now that paths with spaces *must* be surrounded by double quotes.

just my humble opinion

It's just a simple mistake, we're all human. Would be great if it could be tested on all major versions of windows, but... cant look a gift-horse in the mouth right? I love wamp

Hi,

thanks Darell, I will create a patch for WAMP as soon as I can to fix this.

Romain

I have a different problem with WampServer on Vista x64 ... Everything works fine, except for mySQL! If I try to open a page that uses mySQL (e.g. myphpadmin) I get the error message

"Cannot load mysqli extension. Please check your PHP configuration."

But everything is set up correclty, path names are correct and the mysql extension is enabled in the php.ini.

Anyone who has experience with this problem?

Try this

Left click on wamp tray icon, then MySQL, then my.ini

Find:
default-storage-engine=InnoDB

Change to:
default-storage-engine=MyISAM

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Thanks yfastud! Somehow the problem fixed it self now after reinstalling WampServer freshly.

you're welcome anytime ;-)

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