WAMP Server not working

Question

Okay so a continuation from this question, where you experts intro'd me to WAMP, which can basically execute PHP within a Windows XP environment.

So now I've got it installed, but the tray icon forever shows YELLOW, and when I visit any PHP page in my browser, it just shows me the PHP source!

Also, when I visit "http://localhost/" in IE7 it gives me a 404 Not Found, FF3 just shows a blank page.

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BTW I've tried "Restart All Services" and restarting my machine, but it still won't work.

Any ideas? Any of you had this problem and solved it? Please help me here, I'm desperate to execute PHP client-side and I'm just reverting to testing on-server for now!

Solution 1

Skype reserves port 80 for its incoming connection which conflicts with WAMP, so simply configure Skype to use another port by doing the following:

In Skype go to Tools|Options|Advanced|Connection uncheck the option --> Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections, that's it

For this change to take effect restart Skype and Restart all services on WAMP by doing the following:

Left-click WAMP tray icon > Restart All Services"

Now Wamp and Skype can co-exist together, hope this solves your problem!!

Solution 2

Got it! Under the WAMP tray icon, left-click context menu > Apache > Service > Test Port 80, it said :

"Your port 80 is actually used by - Info not available, Must be Skype"

Well, so off goes Skype, WAMP > Restart All Services, and Localhost shows "WAMP5 Homepage":

_{(source: wampserver.com)}

And, phpMyAdmin works, PHP scripts execute too. Wow!

So now I can dubug in the proper fashion! Thank you StackOverflow!

Solution 3

try this one, i had the same problem and this helped me:

1. Wamp Server icon => Appache => Service => Install Service
2. Wamp Server icon => Appache => Service => Start/Resume Service
3. Wamp Server icon => MySql => Service => Install Service
4. Wamp Server icon => MySql => Service => Start/Resume Service

Solution 4

just go to wamp>bin>apache>apache 2.2.17>conf>httpd.conf (file) change Listen 80 to Listen 8080 save the file n restart the services this time type http://localhost:8080

Solution 5

Teamviewer can cause this too.

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