Wampserver 2.1 gives orange icon after install on Windows 7

Question

I just installed Wampserver 2.1 on my windows 7 64bit computer and the icon that should turn green, turns orange, saying that the server is not ready.

The result is

Answer 1

I use Wampserver 2.2. I had the same problem, icon would just stay orange... Here's what I found out : If you click on the

Wamp Tray Icon > Apache > Service > Test Port 80

Well that showed me what was already using port 80: Server : Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0, which is not what I wanted... So I did like suggested above and changed the value of Listen 80 in http.conf to Listen 81. Stopped and restarted and it works.

Answer 2

I had this problem with an orange wamp due to that IIS and/or the Web Deployment Agent Service used when developing web applications in Visual Studio was blocking port 80. When I stopped these two services wamp started just fine with a beautiful green icon :)

Run these two commads from the commandline as administrator to stop the services

iisreset /stop
net stop msdepsvc

Answer 3

I just unchecked using port 80 from Skype advance settings and it start working fine.

Before that I had changed the MySQL port 3306 to 3307 from the MySQL my.ini file

Answer 4

check the Apache port being used by your wamp at "http.conf" . Try changing the port to a number above 1024 and than restart apache. Than try to access the Apache server using a url like http://localhost:$PORT_NUMBER_HERE . If it works is because your user does not have permission to open a socket below 1024. This is common in unix environments but I am not a windows user to know if it has the same restrictions. Have a try.

You might also check the windows firewall and give access to the port being used, if the firewall is blocking it.

regards.

Answer 5

C:/wamp/alias

and look your alias maybe you change DISK D:\ to K:\

"Alias /virtualram/ "D:/virtualram/".

Do not change port 80 to 8080!

gl

Answer 6

Check each service individually. MySQL uses port 3360 so that might be blocked as well.

On a personal note, I've been finding WAMP a problem after version 2.0i, so I switched to a Linux VM or even another computer running linux for my PHP development.

Try EasyPHP since you can install that onto a USB drive so you can keep the "WAMP" with you.