WampServer

Hi folks,

Ok, I'm pulling my hair out here. I've got WampServer installed and it's online (icon is white) but I can not access localhost, 127.0.0.1, or phpmyadmin - (IE can not display the web page)

Skype - port 80 not used

IIS not running

hosts file only has one entry - 127.0.0.1 localhost

using Internet Explorer not Firefox

browser cache is cleared

TCP/IP6 is not selected in Network Properties

I can ping localhost and port 80 is listening

Windows Firewall is off

COMODO Firewall turned off

What am I missing? For the life of me I can not figure this out. It has got to be something simple that I am overlooking.

Thanks for the help!
Mark

I forgot to mention, I am running VISTA Home Premium - Service Pack 2

Another followup...

I just discovered that I can type in the machine name and it works!

But localhost or 127.0.0.1 still do not work

I seem to have more or less the same problem as you. Did you ever solve it? Thanks.

Solution for me was to uninstall and then reinstall Comodo firewall. No matter how I configured it I could not get to localhost. But once I completely uninstalled it and reinstalled it all is well.

Good luck

Luckily, I didn't have to uninstall and reinstall anything. I was able to solve my problem by switching to port 8080. WampServer's "test port 80" indicating everything was fine, but somehow it wasn't.

Thanks for responding so quickly!

I am having the same problem, Skypes not running, and I have it on a completly seperate port that nothing else is running on. I only use windows firewall, and have opened the ports on the firewall. Any suggestions?

@ planstoprosper

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Luckily, I didn't have to uninstall and reinstall anything. I was able to solve my problem by switching to port 8080. WampServer's "test port 80" indicating everything was fine, but somehow it wasn't.

it's NOT lucky as you thought since port 80 is default port for web server and now it's occupied and you should find out what took it and uninstall it to return port 80 back to wamp

@ pwernost
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/W7:

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

127.0.0.1 localhost

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

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This instance of WampServer will only be used as a local test server. It's not going to be available to anyone else but this machine. As long as it's just a local test server, is there any reason it needs to be on port 80? I've already changed the bookmarks for localhost and phpMyAdmin on the tray icon left-click menu to use port 8080 instead.

unless you only use your own script, you might encounter some problem to test some free scripts since a lot of free scripts out there assume you use the standard port 80

Have fun,

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FREE Photo
FREE Games
FREE Websites
FREE Portable GPS
FREE WAMP Guides

It is appeared to be issue with the Port. Mostly Port 80 is the generic one which is being used by most of the applications such as:

- Skype
- Dropbox
- Teamviewer
- Any other cloud based or screensharing softwares.

To avoid this: use the following steps

1. Locate: httpd.conf ( WAMP icon > Apache > httpd.conf )
2. Locate: Port 80 change it to : 8080
3. Restart WAMP
4. Go to browswer can type: localhost:8080

If you have sub-folders then it will work like: localhost:8080/sub-folder

You will still be able to use Dropbox, Skype, Teamviewer with this settings.

Best of luck.

Regards
Deepak K Rana
IT Consultant, London.

Again, not a great solution deepak