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I am having problems with Wamp Server  the icon will never turn green  It is constantly stuck at orange   I have tried many ways  editing HOSTS file   config files  disabling IIS  changing SKYPE s port  quitting SKYPE  disabling World Wide Web publishing services etc    And under wamp server icon   Apache   Test port 80  it states that Apache is using that port   I am running Windows 8 64 bit and Wamp Server 2 4  Any help would be appreciated

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It can happen because of one of the three reasons:-

1) Missing VC++ installation: Install All versions of VC++ redistribution packages VC9, VC10, VC11, VC13, VC14 and VC15. See the link provided at the end for download link. If you have a 64-bit Windows, you must install both 32 and 64bit versions of each VisualC++ package, even if you do not use Wampserver 64 bit.

2) You forgot to provide Admin Privileges to WAMP Server : Launch and Install with the "Run as administrator" option, very important.

3) WAMP, IIS and Skype fighting over same port :

Close Skype or force not to use port 80: http://forum.wampserver.com/read.php?2,134915
Disable IIS: http://forum.wampserver.com/read.php?2,134915

VC9 Packages (Visual C++ 2008 SP1)

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5582 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2092
VC10 Packages (Visual C++ 2010 SP1) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8328 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13523
VC11 Packages (Visual C++ 2012 Update 4) The two files VSU4\vcredist_x86.exe and VSU4\vcredist_x64.exe to be download are on the same page: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679
VC13 Packages] (Visual C++ 2013) The two files VSU4\vcredist_x86.exe and VSU4\vcredist_x64.exe to be download are on the same page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784
VC14 Packages (Visual C++ 2015 Update 3) The two files vcredist_x86.exe and vcredist_x64.exe to be download are on the same page: http://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/download/details.aspx?id=53840
VC15 Redistribuable (Visual C++ 2017) https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=746571 Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2017 x86 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=746572

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If you are using wampserver 3  recommended  works with no configuration usually    click wampserver icon   apache   service administration   install service  click wampserver icon   mysql   service administration   install service  click wampserver icon   mariadb   service administration   install service  click wampserver icon   restart all services   if this doesnt fix it  try    right click wampserver icon   Tools   Check httpd conf syntax  then fix the issue it identifies and restart all services  likely it s bad syntax in your virtual hosts file  right click wampserver icon   Tools   test port 80  you likely have skype turned on or something else  turn it off and restart all services    If this doesnt fix it  maybe have a windows conflict    Upgraded to Windows 10 and now WAMP won  39 t work    If this doesnt fix it    right click wampserver icon   tools   check all of those for clues

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Wamp server default disk is  C    if you install it to another disk for ex G    go to   g  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 bin    2  call cmd  3  execute httpd exe -t  you will see errors     go to g  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 conf extra httpd-autoindex conf change in line 23 to     Alias  icons   g  Apache24 icons     lt Directory  g  Apache24 icons  gt      Options Indexes MultiViews     AllowOverride None     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt     Restart All services  Done  Resolved

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go to C  wamp bin mysql mysql5 6 17 look for  my ini   right click to edit it   use your favorite editor  notepad    jedit hellip    look for 3306 and change it to 3307 restart all the services and it should work

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Adding to what  Hitesh-sahu said you need all the VC   redistribution packages for it to turn green  I referred to this thread from wampserver forum  You can install this little tool  check vcredist  from the tools section here which will check if all the needed dependencies are installed  see attached image  and it will also provide links to missing ones  If you are using x64 version of Windows like I do and your wampserver does not turn green even after installing all the packages then uninstall and do a fresh installation again  Hope it helps

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To add to the above post     If either of the services are not running  it might simply just be because they need to be installed configured  This is easy to do straight from the WampManager Icon   If Apache is not running    WampManager Icon - gt  Apache - gt  Service - gt  Install Service   You should get a command prompt pop-up if port 80 is free  if not  see above post           Your port 80 is available  Install will proceed          Press Enter to continue        If MySQL is not running   WampManager Icon - gt  MySQL - gt  Service - gt  Install Service    Do that for one or both services then   WampManager Icon - gt  Restart All Services   The icon should now turn green

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After removing the innodb additional mem pool size 4M from my ini  and killing that process that used the port that Mysql wanted I managed it to go   Suggested fix  1  The quick solution  Comment the line innodb additional mem pool size 4M in the service s  my ini  file  2  exclude the option from the 5 7 4 default config file or 3  un-unknow the variable to mysql     link  http   bugs mysql com bug php id 72533  Use number 1  remove the whole line  Save to my ini  Kill the process if you have one running  look at them with resmon exe and kill them with command taskkill  pid pid-of-process  f   then start wampmysql and your icon should turn green   Regards SB

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I ran into this same problem this morning but none of the answers above provided me with the solution   I realised eventually that my issue was because I had changed the DocumentRoot to a subfolder of the www directory  as I had previously been running a Symfony2 project inside www   With the new project I am working on inside www  that old DocumentRoot dir did not exist any more so Apache failed to start   wampserver -  Apache -  httpd conf  then look for  DocumentRoot  and make sure the directory it points to exists or else change it to one that does   Thank you to RiggsFolly  it was because of your hint about the Event Viewer above that I found the issue

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If you have installed both Wampmanager and also  Bitnami s wampstack on your Windows box  like I had done    make sure Bitnami has not been set to automatically start its wampstackApache and wampstackMySQL services at startup     To check fix this  click  Start-- Run and then type services msc and click Ok      Select Services  in the list on the left and sort the services on Name   Scroll to the  w s     If wampstackApache and or wampstackMySQL services are already started  right-click and stop both   Then Restart All Services from the Wampmanager W icon in the windows desktop services tray   The W should go green   If this was your problem you can change the default startup behavior to manual start wampstackApache and wampstackMySQL in their Properties tabs

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Please read through the wamp installation carefully  It lists the steps for wamp not turning green clearly  Please read through steps while installing wamp server  It solves most of the bootstrap issues  Your port 80 is actually used by   Server  Microsoft-HTTPAPI 2 0 Modify ports  It works Appache port from 8080 to 7080 Maria DB port from 3306 to 3307 Mysql DB port from 3308 to 3309 To verify that all VC    packages are installed and with the latest versions  you can use the tool  http   wampserver aviatechno net files tools check vcredist exe Also know the difference between VC   and VS code Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful  high-performance applications  On the other hand  Visual Studio Code is detailed as  quot Build and debug modern web and cloud applications  by Microsoft quot

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Before you can fix anything you need to know which service has not started  Apache or MySQL  As the TEST PORT 80 utility is saying Apache is running its probably the MySQL service that has not started  Unless you have another Apache running  So which service has not started    If the wampmanager icon is not GREEN then one of the services   Apache MySQL   has not started properly  How to tell which service is not running if the wampmanager icon is orange  Left click the wampmanager icon to reveal the menu- gt  Apache - gt  Service If the Start Resume service menu is Green then Apache IS NOT running  Left click the wampmanager icon to reveal the menu- gt  MySQL - gt  Service If the Start Resume service menu is Green then MySQL IS NOT running  If Apache is the service that is not running it is normally  but not always  because something else has captured port 80  Now do  Left click the wampmanager icon to reveal the menu- gt  Apache - gt  Service - gt  Test port 80 This will launch a command window and display some information about what  if anything is using port 80  Whatever it is should be re-configured to not use port 80 or uninstalled if you are not using it  If port 80 is not the problem look for errors in the appropriate error log   use the wamp manager menus to view the error logs   If these do not exists or show no errors then also check the Windows Event Viewer Start - gt  Administrative Tools - gt  Event Viewer And look in the  Windows Logs  - gt  Application  section accessed from the menu on the left of the dialog for error messages from Apache and or MySQL  If its MYSQL that has not started  Check the mysql error log by using the menus wampmanager- gt MySQL- gt error log  Check the Windows Event log for messages from MYSQL Check you dont have another MYSQL Server instance running  How to Configure SKYPE so it does not require port 80 or 443 Run SKYPE then using the menus do this  Tools - gt  Options - gt  Advanced - gt  Connection Un-Check the checkbox next to  Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incomming connections  Now restart SKYPE for these changes to take effect  If you are running Windows 8 SKYPE comes as an app and this cannot   as yet   be configured in this way  However if you uninstall the SKYPE app and install SKYPE in the old way  you can reconfigure it  and it works just as well

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In case that helps anybody I had the same issue with wampserver3 2 0 x64 on Windows 10 Enterprise    Tried everything from the answers of this thread and nothing helped    I then installed wampserver3 1 0 x86 instead and got the green light on first launch  I have no explanation but at least the desired end result

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PLEASE NOTE  If you have gone through all of the above  like  I  did  and still get the Orange icon  and  when you test Port 80 you get  Apache   look at the file  c  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 conf httpd conf  your apache version number may differ    In the file  about line   62  you ll find a note saying to fill in this   Listen 0 0 0 0 80 Listen    0  80  Why   Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to  prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses   I changed that to match my localhost IP address and when I restarted Wamp  it quickly went from Red to Green  Success    3 hours later

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