WampServer

WAMP was working on this server three months ago, since it is a school machine it hasn't been used. It was turned on today and WAMP was not running. We tried to get it to work but it will not.

The error that I recieve when trying to bring it online is

Could not execute menu item (internal error) [Exception] Could not perform service action: The service has not been started

I took a look at the services and the service that I believe will not start is wampapache, when I try to start it manually I get this error

Windows could not start the wampapache on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to server specific code 1.

I looked in the event log, the problem that it reads is that it is unable to open logs?

The same hapened to me. I used to have WAMP 2.0b working perfectly, but now I have clean installed Win XP with SP3 and after installing WAMP 2.0c I received that same message from the very first time I tried to put the server online.

Culd this be in some way related with SP3? Only that (and of course the version upgrade from 2.0b to 2.0c) is the only difference in my system between my working WAMP and this one.

@ LightningSt
b/w that time, did you install any software or have any update?

@ plinio
did you try w/o sp3?

Have fun,

FREE One A Day
FREE Photo
FREE Games
FREE Websites
FREE Portable GPS
FREE WAMP Guides

Dear yfastud,

Thanks a lot for your posting.

SP3 cannot be uninstalled and what you asked would mean to reinstall the whole OS and all the applications. Therefore, I decided to first try downgrading to WAMP version 2.0b to see if it is was something related with the version 2.0c instead. The results were exactly the same: I received the same message...

However, I refuse to believe that this is related with SP3 (although possible), because that would mean a lot of work going back to SP2! I should investigate a little further about this to make sure is a SP3 related issue before downgrading the OS.

If you have any ideas about where to begin in the search of a workaround, that would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Plinio.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/02/2008 11:56PM by plinio.

since I don't use sp3, so all I can think of is the windows firewall or defender, if it include in sp3, check to make sure you already enable port 80 for http in all firewalls including defender, if any

Have fun,

FREE One A Day
FREE Photo
FREE Games
FREE Websites
FREE Portable GPS
FREE WAMP Guides

Hi there,


I have just figured it out; it was related with IIS.

This was my solution to the problem (I have the Spanish version of windows so I will try to translate the menu option the best I can):

1. Go to Admin Panel -> Administrative tools -> IIS services
2. Surf your PC util you reach the Default Web Site level
3. Click on the stop icon on the upper right panel or right click -> stop on the icon at the left panel
4. Click on the Wamp tray icon and restart all services
5. Put online

Thats it! Now everything works fine again.

At least this worked for me, I hope it can help others as well.

Greetings,

Plinio.

Theory, you can have both, but IIS and Apache/Wamp are both web server and might conflict in some way, so you have to disable IIS in order for Wamp to work

Disable IIS in Vista:

Control Panel, Uninstall Programs, Turn Widows Features On or Off, uncheck Internet Information Services

Disable IIS in XP:

Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows Components, uncheck Internet Information Services (IIS)

Restart computer, then restart Wamp

Have fun,

FREE One A Day
FREE Photo
FREE Games
FREE Websites
FREE Portable GPS
FREE WAMP Guides

Hello,
You must change the port (80) that starts the httpd (apache server).
edit httpd.conf

look for line "Listen 80"
and edit the port with your convenient. (ex. "Listen 81"

OR

Change the IIS port.

""""""""""""""""""

1. Start Regedt32.exe and locate the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ServiceProvider\ServiceType\W3SVC
2. Find the TCP Port value and double-click it.
3. The DWORD Editor dialog box should appear with the default value (0x50 Hex; 80 Decimal) listed. Change the decimal value to the number of the port that you want the World Wide Web Publishing Service to listen to.

NOTE: You can also follow steps 2 and 3 to change the following services:
• MSFTPSVC: FTP Publishing Service
• GOPHERSVC: Gopher Publishing Service
4. Exit Regedt32.exe.
5. Stop and Restart the IIS Services by Using the Internet Service Manager.

"""""""""""""""

Good luck,



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/07/2008 12:11AM by piratugsm.

I had a similar problem. (vista) found that disabling Skype solved the problem.

I'm so glad I read down the whole list. Disabling Skype worked for me, too. I was ready to chuck the whole process as I'm on Windows 7 and so finding the places indicated (in the suggestions above) in Admin tools was impossible. Not a power user, just an old lady trying to do a local install of Drupal so I can test things before finalizing my site.

Nearly got stumped, but thanks to 'gw' for posting that gem of a simple answer.

That worked! Patience paid off again, another lesson in not giving up when things start to look too hard!

:-)

If using Skype, open Skype > Tools > Options > Advanced > Connection uncheck "use port 80..." restart Wamp then Skype

Have fun,

FREE One A Day
FREE Photo
FREE Games
FREE Websites
FREE Portable GPS
FREE WAMP Guides

I had to stop SQL Server Integration Services and Reporting Services. Once I did that, apache started without any problems.

To solve this problem (on Windows 7) I had to create the apache log files manually and also had to change the port to 81 in the httpd.conf as it was interferring with someother service. Prior to that, I had stop the World Wide Web Publishing service but it did not help.

thats not solving the issue thats avoiding it

Steven Martin
stevenmartin99@gmail.com
stevenmartin99@hotmail.com
PampServer.com - [pampserver.com]