http localhost not working on Windows 7 What s the problem

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I have a big problem opening http   localhost  on Windows 7  beta   I installed this os and everything went great  when I installed Wamp I saw that localhost is not working at all  I just see this error      Failed to Connect      Firefox can t establish a connection to the server at localhost    in Mozilla and Explorer   I removed Wamp and after some weeks  that means two weeks from today  I installed NetBeans on Windows 7  I created a test PHP script and when I debug it  I get the same error again  I tried to access it with ip 127     but still the same  What is the problem  When i installed NetBeans I installed it in port 8080

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Got any other Programs running   msn ect      some bind to port 8080 then your webserver wouldnt start and would cause a 404   try binding it to a different port 80 which its default should be

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I got a 404 could not connect error then I set wampmanager exe to run as Xp Sp3 and it seems to be working fine this can be done by      Right Clicking on it Properties click tab labled  Compatibility  Tick Box just undeder  Compatibility mode  Select Windows XP  Service Pack 3  Click Apply then OK

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Well you are getting a 404  so the web server is running  it just can t find the file   Check the http conf file  If it pointing to the right root directory   If you are using different ports  then check http conf to see if Apache is listening on the right port  or if apache is redirecting traffic on the port to anther root directory   Maybe posting your http conf file might help

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If you installed it on port 8080  you need to access it on port 8080   http   localhost 8080 or http   127 0 0 1 8080

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It sounds like you have no web server running at all anywhere     Have you tried enabling IIS and using it to display a basic html file first   Programs  amp  Features -  Turn Windows Features On Off -  Internet Information Servcies  Then  place your html file in C  inetpub wwwroot index html and browse to http   localhost   Once this works  try to get WAMP php working   Be careful of port conflicts

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Assuming there is no problem doing a lookup on localhost  to 127 0 0 1   you need to make sure your server is listening to 127 0 0 1   netstat works in both windows an UNIX  You probably need  netstat -a  to display listeners

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For me  it was skype causing the problem   Once I stopped skype  everything worked   I have 1 7 1 xampp  mysql and apache  running on Windows 7 x64

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My initial thought is that you are missing an entry in the hosts file  Something like  127 0 0 1 localhost   however  you mention that you are getting a 404 error  That means that the webserver is connecting to your client browser and responding to the request for a particular webpage   I m not familiar enough with Windows 7  however  I m pretty sure that it does not include a webserver by default  Also  unless you actually code  build and run a webserver application using netbeans you re not going to get the desired response   When it comes down to it     your issue is going to be one of the following     1  you re serving static documents and the webserver is not configured to serve the files from whatever the proper DOCROOT should be  This includes PUBLIC folders in the user s directories   the basic apache install include a basic homepage   2  you have a dynamic webserver application where the controller is looking at the application path in order to decide what page to display or what function to execute   see MVC - Controller   Basically incomplete implementation   3  yet another configuration error  your website might actually define a virtual domain   something other than localhost  so when you look for localhost in the URL the server might not be configured to provide a default page

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See the above solutions are very good But whenever you get this 404 eroor first see this I am sure the problem will be solved     Just go to httpd conf file by clicking wamp server symbol in bottom right taskbar-Apache- gt httpd conf    or c   wampt  bin  apache  apache2 2 1  conf  httpd conf and approximate on line no 46 you will find  Listen 80    just make sure it is written  80  after Listen   if it not then change it to 80   And your problem will be solved

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I had the exact same issue  and the solution is what someone has already said   In the taskbar  click on the WAMP icon    Go to Apache-- Service-- Install Service  Then go back by clicking and selecting Apache-- Service-- Start Resume Service  This will allow the localhost function to work  keep in mind I had already changed the host file located under c  windows system32 drivers etc to remove the   from the 127 0 0 1 line   If you need to edit that file still  you need to right click on it and select Properties  Then go to the Security tab  and click the Advanced button  You then need to select the Users  click Edit and select  Full Control   This will enable you to edit it   That being said  you need to ALSO install the MySQL service following the same procedure   MySQL-- Service-- Install Service  Then go back by right clicking yet again and selecting MySQL-- Service-- Start Resume Service   And that should fix it all up in Windows 7

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you have to install the service  go to wamp- Apache- Service- Install service  then a command prompt window will pop up  then press enter  and after a few seconds go to the same route Services-  and click Start Resume service  and you ready

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If you re still having this problem  try this    Edit your hosts file  with elevated privileges  Uncomment the line   127 0 0 1   localhost   ie- remove the    Save the file as is   hosts with no extension   In Win7 MS has decided to comment the localhost line with that msg that says it s handled in dns   I m still not exactly clear what they re getting at  except maybe that they re telling folks to use dns for localhost resolution instead of the hosts file   Probably safer that way  anyway

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Try adding the following tags in the wwwroot folder web config file   These tags should be added as a child of the configuration tags as below   -configuration- --system webServer-- ---validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration  false  --- -- system webServer-- - configuration-

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Yea  this was a pain for me as well    So what i did was find the  Start Wampserver   just hit the start button and type it in    Then right click on it   select properties   I set it to run in XP servive pack 3 on the capatability tab  I also checked the box  Run this program as an administrator    Then I right clicked the WAMPSERVER on the System Tray  and re-started all services   This worked perfect for me  hope this will help you as well   Rob

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Edit your C  Windows System32 drivers etc hosts file   Make sure there is an entry that looks like this   127 0 0 1   localhost   If there is an entry like      localhost   Comment it out to look like this       localhost   This should fix your problem  I ve had this problem in the past

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Uncommenting the following line in host file  worked for me    127 0 0 1 localhost

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For me this did the trick at port 80 in the end    You have to disable the http sys service manually via the registry    Launch RegEdit  Go to  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services HTTP Add a new DWORD  32-bit  value Name it    NoRun    not including the quotes Double click the new property In the Value data field type    1  not including quotes and click OK Re-boot your computer    You should now find that Apache will start on port 80

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Before installing Wamp  go to controlpanel   Adminstrative tools    IIS Manager and turn off the IIS server  Install wamp and everything works fine  When IIS is on it also uses port 80  You can go through a lot of changing the ports and permissions for wamp but I have found this the quickest and easiest method of getting wamp to run successfully

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It was Skype interfering for me too  I changed the Skype settings  in Skype go to Tools   options   advanced   Connection and UNCHECK  use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections   save then close Skype  I have Win 7 HomePremium 64 bit  had installed Xampp fine with MySQL running fine  but no matter how many times I started Apache  and console showed  Apache started   I still got the  firefox can t establish a connection  error in the browser  After Skype changes were saved  Apache showed the green  Running  and all working now thanks

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To fix the port 80 problem do   From cmd as administrator    sc config http start  demand  you need a space after the equal sign and not before  Reboot Run the command  netsh http show servicestate  as administrator to check that the port 80 is in use   After you have run this command  you can disable http sys as follows    net stop http  stop the process  Sc config http start  disabled  if you want to disable the service forever    it works for me

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Have you try the iis  Go to Control Panel- Programs and Features- Turn Windows features on or off  side bar   Try installing or reinstalling the Internet Information Service  I ve a windows 7 with iis  with  net and php  and it works great

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Maybe Skype or other Application is using port 80   This you can check in      Tools- Settings- Advanced- Connection

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