wampserver doesn t go green - stays orange

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I am trying to install wampserver on a win7-32bit  The installation goes smoothly but the icon doesn t turn green  It stays orange saying  Server online   I ve trying different solutions nothing worked  -changed apache port to 8080  -turn off IIS and other stuff - even tried to instal xampp server but that didn t work either   What else is there to do  Thanks

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Make a Ctrl Alt Suppr in order to see if no other Apache version is ever runing on your computer  It was the case for me  I just stop them and the light pass green   Cheers

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the cause could be a variety of reasons   It might not show up in the log files  I had the case where the log showed Apache started  then all threads shut down  and absolutely no explanation why  Here s a tip for solving this problem everybody seems to have missed  The log file should show the full command line used to start apache  something like   httpd -d C  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9   Do this  open a cmd window  cd to the apache bin directory  and run the command manually   c   gt  cd C  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 bin C  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 bin gt  httpd -d C  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9   It blurted out the error stright away  problem solved in 5 minutes   AH00526  Syntax error on line 609 of C  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 conf httpd conf  CustomLog takes two or three arguments  a file name  a custom log format string or format name  and an optional  env   or  expr   clause  see docs    this happened due to a syntax error I put in  httpd conf  while trying to make my wampserver multi-homed  But why didn t the apache people write this in the log file

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I have had this issue before and it turned out that Skype was interferring with port 80  So you may have to look at your system to see if you have another application utilizing this port   Anyway under Skype  to change this setting it was  Tools- gt Options- gt Advanced- gt Connection- gt Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections  Untick this  restart Skype  restart wamp   Related question

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Also in device manager  first click  show all processes    put a stop to HTTP  After this fix I got an IIS page issue on localhost which got solved when we did the step below  Check your hosts file in the C  Windows System32 Drivers etc  folder  if entry 127 0 0 1 localhost is commented then uncomment it by removing the   in front of that line

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Right Click Xampp Icon Go to TOOLS Then Find Reinstall Services If something pops out which is the windows firewall just allow access    Then after a minute all should be good    hope it helps

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If you install WAMPServer before you install the C   Redistributable  it won t work even after you ve installed it because you will miss a critical step in the installation where you tell Windows Firewall to let Apache run    Uninstall WAMP by running the unins file in the wamp directory Download and install the vbasic package here  http   www microsoft com en-us download details aspx id 8328  Restart your computer Install WAMP again  You should see a message with a purple feather telling you to allow access  Do so  and you should be all good

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Update 2017- Wamp version 3 0 6  If you have Installed VC redist from Microsoft but still your wamp icon is orange then it could be a conflict caused by Skype for port  80   You will need to change port number as explained below      Right click on Wamp--  tool--  apache section-- use a port other than   80     Now listen to  http   localhost 7080 phpmyadmin

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WAMP Server may turn orange for various reason as it is not working  This is also a another type of issue  that can be due to webservices is running in services msc This is explained in the below blog  Please try it  How to resolve HTTP Error 404 and launch localhost with WAMP Server for PHP  amp  MySql

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If you can t start Wamp anymore right after a Windows update  this is often caused because of Windows that has automatically re-turned on the World Wide Web Publishing Service   To solve  Click on Start  type Services  click Services  find World Wide Web Publishing Service  double click it  set Startup type to Disabled and click Stop button  OK this dialog and try to restart Wamp

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After trying all the other solutions posted here  Skype  updates to C   Redistributable   I found that another process was using port 80  The culprit was Microsoft Internet Information Server  IIS   You can stop the service from the command line on Windows 7 Vista   net stop was  y   Or set the service to not start automatically by going to Services  click Start  click Control Panel  click Performance and Maintenance  click Administrative Tools  and then double-click Services  There  locate  WAS Service  and  World Wide Web Publication Service  and set them to manual or deactivate them completely   Then restart the WAMP server   More info  http   www sitepoint com unblock-port-80-on-windows-run-apache

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But if it does not solve the problem  you probably have installed sql 2008 R2  so the solution that worked to me was this wamp server problems yellow symbol

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My problem was not related to skype as i didn t had it installed  The solution I found was that 2  dll files msvcp110 dll  msvcr110 dll  were missing from the directory    C  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 bin   So I copied these 2 files to all these locations just in case and restarted wamp it worked  C  wamp C  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 bin C  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 C  wamp bin mysql mysql5 6 17 C  wamp bin php php5 5 12   I hope this helps someone out

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you can run appache   E  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 bin httpd exe -d E  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9   after that see the log of error and solve it

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click WAMP icon - gt  Apache - gt  httpd conf and find listen 80   new versions of WAMP uses     Listen 0 0 0 0 80    Listen    0  80      ServerName localhost 80   Change Port Number as you want  like     Listen 0 0 0 0 81    Listen    0  81      ServerName localhost 81   and now restart Wamp  thats it  and in web browser type as     http   localhost 81   Happy Coding

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