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I am unable to connect to the local host on windows 7. I've disabled iis, and currently have nothing using port 80. I have the red icon on my system tray. Please help.

red icon means both services are not running so make sure no other program conflict wamp such as iis, skype, zonealarm, firewall/antivirus, nod32, eset, any web related program ...

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/7:

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

Also, open file hosts in folder C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc and delete anything in there and have only this line and nothing else

127.0.0.1 localhost

if using skype, open skype > tools > options > advanced > connection and uncheck "use port 80..." then restart wamp then skype

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MySQL is now running, but not Apache. The wamp icon is now yellow.

Actually, I was able to finally get it to work! I missed a step. Thanks for your help.