Project Links do not work on Wamp Server

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I am installing the Wamp Server on another computer to run a mid-sized database and UI  I have been successful in blocking IIS and routing the server to Localhost 8080  But whenever I try to access on of my projects from the localhost homepage  in the www file  I get redirected to a Page not found error    When I hover above the links the directory always comes up  http    ProjectFolderNameHere     when it s supposed to be  http    LocalHost 8080   ProjectFolderNameHere     What can I do to get the links working properly   My Machine runs on Windows 7 Home Edition 64-bits  and I already have Microsoft s IIS disabled

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Hello you need to open the index php from the wamp server and change  suppress localhost   false  from  suppress localhost   true  then your wamp will working fine

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Navigate to your www directory  if you are using wamp server  htdocs  if on XAMPP   Open your admin php and search on project contents  or just go directly to line  number 339 and change the link  inserting  local host to the link    That should work

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This works on Wamp 3     Go to wamp folder  wamp  or wamp64   Open wampmanager conf Find urlAddLocalhost param and set it on  urlAddLocalhost    on    There should not be the need to tweak the index php in www folder

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I believe this is the best solution    Open index php in www folder and set  change line  30  suppress localhost   true   to  suppress localhost   false   This will ensure the project is prefixed with your local host IP name

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I find it s a lot easier  than accepted answer  to create a local subdomain by project and tell Apache to serve multiple sites by name   For example  let s say you created a project under c  wamp64 www sites mysite  to be able to access it at http   mysite localhost you simply need to do the following   1  Tell your machine to answer to different names Add 127 0 0 1  mysite localhost to C  windows system32 drivers etc hosts  2  Flush your DNS cache Open a Command Prompt as administrator and type net stop dnscache  then net start dnscache   3  Tell Apache where to look Click on Wamp s icon in tray  go to Apache -  httpd conf  and add this at the end     Tells Apache to identify which site by name NameVirtualHost   80   Tells Apache to serve the default WAMP Server page to  localhost   lt VirtualHost 127 0 0 1 gt  ServerName localhost DocumentRoot  C  wamp www   lt  VirtualHost gt     Tells Apache to serve Client 1 s pages to  client1 localhost    Duplicate and modify this block to add another client  lt VirtualHost 127 0 0 1 gt    The name to respond to ServerName client1 localhost   Folder where the files live DocumentRoot  C  wamp64 www sites mysite    A few helpful settings     lt Directory  C  wamp64 www sites mysite  gt  allow from all order allow deny   Enables  htaccess files for this site AllowOverride All  lt  Directory gt    Apache will look for these two files  in this order  if no file is specified in the URL DirectoryIndex index html index php  lt  VirtualHost gt      source   4  Restart Apache Click on Wamp s icon in tray  select  restart   5  Define a base url Go to your project folder  add  lt base href  http   mysite localhost    gt  to your  lt head gt  section to prevent  links to server root from being broken   Personally  I inject this html code dynamically into my template using PHP  something like  site root    IS LOCALHOST      lt base href  http   mysite localhost    gt     null   so I don t have to bother removing that once on production

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How to create a Virtual Host in WampServer  WAMPServer 3 has made this process much easier  You can do almost everything from a utility provided as part of WAMPServer   Create a folder inside to contain your project site  This can be under the C  wamp www  directory or in a completely seperate folder like C  websites   Create a folder inside the location you have chosen EG C  websites project1 www or under the c  wamp www project1 www  Now open localhost wampmanager- gt localhost and click on the link Add a Virtual Host under the TOOLS section on the homepage    You will see a page like this    Fill in the fields as specified by the instructions above each field  The Virtual Host config will have been created for you   Now you must restart the DNS Cache  You can do this from the wampmanager menus like this right click wampmanager- gt Tools- gt Restart DNS  The DNS Cache will be restarted and then Apache will also be stopped and restarted  When the wampmanager icon goes green again all is completed   Now you must create a simple index php file or install your site into the folder you created above   Assuming your VH was called project dev You should see that name under the Your Virtual Hosts Section of the WAMPServer homepage   You can launch the site from this menu  or just use the new Domain Name in the address bar EG project1 dev and the site shoudl launch     Old WAMPServer 2 5 mechanism  or if you want to do it all manually There has been a change of concept in WampServer 2 5 and above and there is a good reason for this change  In WampServer it is now STRONGLY encouraged to create a Virtual Host for each of your projects  even if you hold them in a  wamp www subfolder structure  Virtual Hosts Documentation Virtual Host Examples The WampServer home page    wamp www index php   now expects you to have created a Virtual Host for all your projects and will therefore work properly only if you do so  History In order to make life easier for beginners using WampServer to learn PHP Apache and MySQL it was suggested that you create subfolders under the  wamp www  folder  wamp    -- www         -- Chapter1         -- Chapter2         -- etc  These subfolders would then show as links in the WampServer Homepage under a menu called  Your Projects  and these links would contain a link to localhost subfoldername  Acceptable only for simple tutorials This made life easy for the complete beginner  and was perfectly acceptable for example for those following tutorials to learn PHP coding  However it was never intended for use when developing a real web site that you would later want to copy to your live hosted server  In fact if you did use this mechanism it often caused problems as the live sites configuration would not match your development configuration  The Problem for real website development  The reason for this is of course that the default DocumentRoot setting for wamp is DocumentRoot  quot c  wamp www  quot  regardless of what your subfolder was called  This ment that often used PHP code that queried the structure or your site received different information when running on your development WampServer to what it would receive when running on a live hosted server  where the DocumentRoot configuration points to the folder at the top of the website file hierarchy  This kind of code exists in many frameworks and CMS s for example WordPress and Joomla etc  For Example Lets say we have a project called project1 held in wamp www project1 and run incorrectly as localhost project1 index php This is what would be reported by some of the PHP command in question    SERVER  HTTP HOST     localhost   SERVER  SERVER NAME     localhost   SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT     c  wamp www  Now if we had correctly defined that site using a Virtual Host definition and ran it as http   project1 the results on the WAMPServer devlopment site will match those received when on a live hosted environment    SERVER  HTTP HOST     project1   SERVER  SERVER NAME     project1   SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT     c  wamp www project1  Now this difference may seem trivial at first but if you were to use a framework like WordPress or one of the CMS s like Joomla for example  this can and does cause problems when you move your site to a live server  How to create a Virtual Host in WampServer Actually this should work basically the same for any wndows Apache server  with differences only in where you may find the Apache config files  There are 3 steps to create your first Virtual Host in Apache  and only 2 if you already have one defined   Create the Virtual Host definition s  Add your new domain name to the HOSTS file  Uncomment the line in httpd conf that includes the Virtual Hosts definition file   Step 1  Create the Virtual Host definition s  Edit the file called httpd-hosts conf which for WampServer lives in  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 conf extra httpd-vhosts conf   Apache version numbers may differ  engage brain before continuing  If this is the first time you edit this file  remove the default example code  it is of no use  I am assuming we want to create a definition for a site called project1 that lives in  wamp www project1  Very important  first we must make sure that localhost still works so that is the first VHOST definition we will put in this file   lt VirtualHost   80 gt      DocumentRoot  quot c  wamp www quot      ServerName localhost     ServerAlias localhost      lt Directory   quot c  wamp www quot  gt          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride All         Require local      lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt   Now we define our project  and this of course you do for each of your projects as you start a new one   lt VirtualHost   80 gt      DocumentRoot  quot c  wamp www project1 quot      ServerName project1      lt Directory   quot c  wamp www project1 quot  gt          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride All         Require local      lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt   NOTE  That each Virtual Host as its own DocumentRoot defined  There are also many other parameters you can add to a Virtual Hosts definition  check the Apache documentation  Small aside The way virtual hosts work in Apache  The first definition in this file will also be the default site  so should the domain name used in the browser not match any actually defined virtually hosted domain  making localhost the first domain in the file will therefore make it the site that is loaded if a hack attempt just uses your IP Address  So if we ensure that the Apache security for this domain is ALWAYS SET TO Require local  any casual hack from an external address will receive an error and not get into your PC  but should you misspell a domain you will be shown the WampServer homepage  because you are on the same PC as WampServer and therfore local  Step 2  Add your new domain name to the HOSTS file  Now we need to add the domain name that we have used in the Virtual Host definition to the HOSTS file so that windows knows where to find it  This is similiar to creating a DNS A record  but it is only visible in this case on this specific PC  Edit C  windows system32 drivers etc hosts The file has no extension and should remain that way  Watch out for notepad  as it may try and add a  txt extension if you have no better editor  I suggest you download Notepad    its free and a very good editor  Also this is a protected file so you must edit it with administrator privileges  so launch you editor using the Run as Administrator menu option  The hosts file should look like this when you have completed these edits 127 0 0 1 localhost 127 0 0 1 project1    1 localhost   1 project1  Note that you should have definitions in here for the IPV4 loopback address 127 0 0 1 and also the IPV6 loopback address   1 as Apache is now IPV6 aware and the browser will use either IPV4 or IPV6 or both  I have no idea how it decides which to use  but it can use either if you have the IPV6 stack turned on  and most window OS s do as of XP SP3  Now we must tell windows to refresh its domain name cache  so launch a command window again using the Run as Administrator menu option again  and do the following  net stop dnscache net start dnscache  This forces windows to clear its domain name cache and reload it  in reloading it will re-read the HOSTS file so now it knows about the domain project1  Step 3  Uncomment the line in httpd conf that includes the Virtual Hosts definition file  Edit your httpd conf  use the wampmanager exe menus to make sure you edit the correct file  Find this line in httpd conf   Virtual hosts  Include conf extra httpd-vhosts conf  And just remove the   to uncomment that line  To activate this change in you running Apache we must now stop and restart the Apache service  wampmanager exe - gt  Apache - gt  Service - gt  Restart Service  Now if the WAMP icon in the system tray does not go GREEN again  it means you have probably done something wrong in the  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 conf extra httpd-hosts conf file  If so here is a useful mechanism to find out what is wrong  It uses a feature of the Apache exe  httpd exe  to check its config files and report errors by filename and line numbers  Launch a command window  cd  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 bin httpd -t  So fix the errors and retest again until you get the output Syntax OK  Now there is one more thing  There are actually 2 new menu items on the wampmanager menu system  One called  My Projects  which is turned on by default  And a second one  called  My Virtual Hosts   which is not activated by default   My Projects  will list any sub directory of the  wamp www directory and provide a link to launch the site in that sub directory  As I said earlier  it launches  project1  and not  localhost project1  so to make the link work we must create a Virtual Host definition to make this link actually launch that site in your browser  without the Virtual Host definition it s likely to launch a web search for the site name as a keyword or just return a site not found condition  The  My Virtual Hosts  menu item is a little different  It searches the file that is used to define Virtual Hosts   we will get to that in a minute   and creates menu links for each ServerName parameter it finds and creates a menu item for each one  This may seem a little confusing as once we create a Virtual Host definition for the sub directories of the  wamp www folder some items will appear on both of the  My Projects  menu and the  My Virtual Hosts  menu s  How do I turn this other  My Virtual Hosts  menu on   Make a backup of the  wamp wampmanager tpl file  just in case you make a mistake  its a very important file  Edit the  wamp wampmanager tpl Find this parameter  WAMPPROJECTSUBMENU  its in the   Menu Left   section  Add this new parameter  WAMPVHOSTSUBMENU either before or after the  WAMPPROJECTSUBMENU parameter  Save the file  Now right click the wampmanager icon  and select  Refresh   If this does not add the menu   exit  and restart wampmanager   Big Note The new menu will only appear if you already have some Virtual Hosts defined  Otherwise you will see no difference until you define a VHOST  Now if you take this to its logical extension You can now move your web site code completely outside the  wamp  folder structure simply by changing the DocumentRoot parameter in the VHOST definition  So for example you could do this  Create a folder on the wamp disk or any other disk   beware of network drive  they are a bit more complicated  D  MD websites CD websites MD example com CD example com MD www  You now copy your site code to  or start creating it in the  websites example com www folder and define your VHOST like this   lt VirtualHost   80 gt      DocumentRoot  quot d  websites example com www quot      ServerName example dev     ServerAlias www example dev      lt Directory   quot d  websites example com www quot  gt          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride All         Require all granted      lt  Directory gt       php flag display errors Off     php flag log errors On      php value max upload size 40M     php value max execution time 60     php value error log  quot d  wamp logs example com phperror log quot   lt  VirtualHost gt   Then add this new development domain to the HOSTS file  127 0 0 1 localhost   1 localhost  127 0 0 1 project1   1 project1  127 0 0 1 example dev   1 example dev  NOTE  It is not a good idea to use a ServerName or ServerAlias that is the same as your live domain name  as if we had used example com as the ServerName it would mean we could no longer get to the real live site from this PC as it would direct example com to 127 0 0 1 i e  this PC and not out onto the internet  ALSO  See that I have allowed this site to be accessed from the internet from within the VHOST definitions  this change will apply to only this site and no other  Very useful for allowing a client to view your changes for an hour or so without having to copy them to the live server  This does mean that we have to edit this file manually to turn this access on and off rather than use the Put Online Offline menu item on wampmanager  Also I have added some modifications to the PHP config  again that will only apply to this one site  Very useful when maintaining a site with specific requirement unlike all the other sites you maintain  I guess we can assume from the parameters used that it has a long running page in it somewhere and it is very badly written and will not run with errors being displayed on the browser without making a horrible mess of the page  Believe me sites like this exist and people still want them maintained badly  But this mean we only have to change these parameters for this specific site and not globally to all Virtual sites running on WampServer

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How To Fix The Broken Icon Links  blank gif  text gif  etc    Unfortunately as previously mentioned  simply adding a virtual host to your project doesn t fix the broken icon links    The Problem   WAMP Apache does not change the directory reference for the icons to your respective installation directory  It is statically set to  c  Apache24 icons  and 99 9  of users Apache installation does not reside here  Especially with WAMP   The Fix    Find your Apache icons directory  Typically it will be located here   c  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 icons   However your mileage may vary depending on your installation and if your Apache version is different  then your path will be different as well   Open up httpd-autoindex conf in your favorite editor  This file can usually be found here   C  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 conf extra httpd-autoindex conf   Again  if your Apache version is different  then so will this path  Find this definition  usually located near the top of the file    Alias  icons   c  Apache24 icons     lt Directory  c  Apache24 icons  gt  Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Require all granted  lt  Directory gt   Replace the  c  Apache24 icons   directories with your own  IMPORTANT You MUST have a trailing forward slash in the first directory reference  The second directory reference must have no trailing slash  Your results should look similar to this  Again  your directory may differ   Alias  icons   c  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 icons     lt Directory  c  wamp bin apache apache2 4 9 icons  gt  Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Require all granted  lt  Directory gt   Restart your Apache server and enjoy your cool icons

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suppress localhost   false    This did the trick for me

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In order to access project from the homepage you need to create a Virtual Host first      Most easiest way to do this is to use Wamp s Add a Virtual Host Utility    Just follow these steps    Create a folder inside  C  wamp www   directory and give it a name that you want to give to your site for eg   mysite   So the path would be  C  wamp www mysite   Now open localhost s homepage in your browser  under Tools menu click on Add a Virtual Host link  Enter the name of the virtual host  that name must be the name of the folder we created inside www directory i e   mysite   Enter absolute path of the virtual host i e   C  wamp www mysite   without quotes and click the button below saying  Start the creation of the VirtualHost   Virtual Host created  now you just need to  Restart DNS   To do this right click the wamp server s tray menu icon  click on Tools   Restart DNS and let the tray menu icon become green again  All set  Now just create  index php  page inside  C  wamp www mysite   directory  Add some code in  index php  file  like  lt  php   echo   lt h1 gt Hello World lt  h1 gt      gt    Now you can access the projects from the localhost s homepage  Just click the project link and you ll see  Hello World  printed on your screen

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You can follow all steps by  RiggsFolly thats is really good answer  If you do not want to create virtual host and want to use like previous localhost example  or something like that you can use answer by  Arunu  But if you still face problem please use this method    Locate your wamp folder  Eg  c  Wamp   where you have installed Goto Wamp www  Open index php file find this code  projectContents      lt li gt  lt a href      suppress localhost    http            file    gt    file   lt  a gt  lt  li gt    modify it add localhost after http     projectContents      lt li gt  lt a href      suppress localhost    http   localhost         file    gt    file   lt  a gt  lt  li gt    Restart wamp server open localhost see the updated links   Hope you got your url like previous version of wamp server

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Open index php in www folder and set    suppress localhost   false    This will prepend http   localhost  to your project links

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Re  Wampserver LocalHost links not working correctly This is as of June 2014 with Wampserver2 5  maybe they ll fix this in later builds   Note  to use LocalHost 8080  instead of LocalHost just make the appropriate changes in the edits mentioned below   There are 2 aspects of this issue - The first is to be able to access items under  Your Projects  from the Wamp localhost homepage  The second is to be able to correctly access items listed in the Wampserver Icon Taskbar s  My Projects  list   To  fix the first  to be able to access items under  Your Projects  from the Wamp localhost homepage  you will need to do the following     There are 2 edits that you must make in the index php file located in your wamp www folder  usually C  wamp www   1  on Line 30 change      suppress localhost   true    to        suppress localhost   false    2  on line 338 change     projectContents      lt li gt  lt a href      suppress localhost    http            file    gt    file   lt  a gt  lt  li gt      to      projectContents      lt li gt  lt a href      suppress localhost    http        http   localhost      file    gt    file   lt  a gt  lt  li gt      After you ve made the above edits - if the Wampserver is running just refresh the local host page and the changes become immediately effective    To fix the 2nd item  the Wampserver Icon Taskbar s  My Projects  list   You need to edit C  wamp scripts refresh php  Locate line 651 and change the section of the line that reads     Parameters   http      projectContents  i       Glyph  5   to      Parameters   http   localhost     projectContents  i       Glyph  5   After you make these 2nd set of changes you may have to force Wampserver to refresh the  My Projects  list by toggling the Put Online Offline option at the bottom of the Wamp Icon Tray App

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check wamp server icon is green or not if it is green then it is working if not then you have to follow these steps to do  a  all the programs should be closed before running the wamp because most of the cases some softwares like skype takes the same port  80  which is using by wamp   b  you can change the port of skype   Tool-s- oprions- advanced- connection untick use port 80 restart the wamp it will work    SECOND case    when you click on the project in loalhost it does not show the localhost infront of the project name and because of that it looks like wamp is not working then you have to one thing on only    go to wamp index php file and change  suppress localhost   false  from  suppress localhost   true  or try vice versa it will work

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