WAMP server not running after enabling httpd-vhosts.conf

Question

I tried enabling Virtual Host on my WAMP installation, but WAMP server will not run if I enable http-vhosts.conf, and the icon remains orange.

Here is my hosts file:

Answer 1

OK I feel this my duty to put this...

I too went on a rampage of checking forms and doing things like

Listen *:80 & NameVirtualHost *:80 but found that this was not necessary, the default settings were fine for me.

the problem started when I tried to put in my vhost declaration

    DocumentRoot 'c:\wamp\www\media_weber_edu\public'
    ServerName media.weber.dev
    
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride all
    <\Directory>

here lied the problem

<\Directory> vs

A huge help to finding this was running C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.22\bin\httpd.exe

this gave me an error like this

httpd.exe: Syntax error on line 469 of C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.2.22/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 42 of C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.2.22/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf: Expected  but saw 

So this may not be the exact problem but I hope this will help those in the future. So take a deep breath... glue the hair back on your head... its going to be ok :)