WAMP server not able to be put online

Question

I've recently install WAMP 2.2 on my Windows PC. For whatever reason, my WAMP server isn't working. I try to open php files on my localhost but I get the famous 404 error message. The icon is orange and says that it is online, but that 404 error is showing me otherwise.Any ideas as to why it isn't working for me?

Solution 1

Just go to test port 80. If its being used by another process, you can defined your own port at httpd.conf Search and find the following string on file httpd.conf1

   Listen 80

and change to

   Listen {to desired port like 8888}

Solution 2

Cant vote nor comment (first time here) but I had this same issue. Under Apache/Service I tried to restart the server but it wasn't even started, then I tried installing it but it said another program was using port 80.

Solution: Closed Skype, Apache/Service/Install Service and then restarted all services. Was able to put wamp server online and finally localhost was up and running.

Hope it helps

Comments

[Marcus]

I read about that as well, however I don't have Skype installed on this computer :/

[steelshark]

Stupid question maybe, but have you tried 127.0.0.1:portnumber as url?