So I downloaded WampServer a few days ago, and I could only get [
localhost] to show a blank page. I tried everything I read on all the forum posts here and got nothing. I was convinced that it was not a port 80 problem because "Test Port 80" said "Your port 80 is actually used by: Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) PHP/5.3.1". I finally looked elsewhere on the web and found instructions to alter httpd.conf. I changed "ServerName localhost:80" to "ServerName localhost:8080" and "Listen 80" to "Listen 8080". And suddenly [
localhost] works!
So my question is: why? I'm totally new to servers in general and WampServer in particular. I'm glad I got it working, but I'd like to understand why. If something else is actually using my port 80, why does "Test Port 80" tell me something different? And if nothing else is using my port 80, why did it work on port 8080 but not port 80?
I appreciate any insight you could give me, and especially any pointers to good sites where I could learn more about this stuff. Thank you very much!
Scott