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

Check your hosts file. It should be located @ /windows/system 32/drivers/etc/

Edit the file in notepad or something similar and look for two lines that read something like

# 127.0.0.1 localhost and # ::1 localhost

Remove the # from the beginning of each line, save the file (make sure there is no file extension when you do) and then restart WAMP.

This should work, at least it did for me, but there are various other programs that can conflict with WAMP like Skype.

Hope this works

Answer 2

I had the same error today. I changed the #listen from 80 to 86 and it still did not work.

I found this on the wampserver forum:

• apache uses 80 (I changed this to 86 using the methods in other answers here)
• mysql uses 3306
• edit the my.ini in mysql folder
• change 3306 to 3307
• written 3 times in the file
• save and restart wamp.

After this my icon finally turned green. However when I went to localhost it still said not found. This is because you need to append the new port you are using to localhost - ie localhost:86

Answer 3

For me it worked by

1 - # 127.0.0.1 localhost and # ::1 localhost and uncommenting these
lines in host file

2 - Inside MySql - my.ini file changing port 3306 to 3307 at three
places

Thanks Guys !

Answer 4

I have had the same issues on Windows 7, orange WAMP icon and when the mouse is on the WAMP icon, it shows the server is online, but I cannot connect to the server. Found out nothing running on port 80, I do not have skype and my hosts file is correct.

What worked for me is described below.

When I left click on the WAMP icon Apache -> Service, I saw that the start/stop service was grayed out.

So, I clicked on "Install service" Apache -> Service -> Install Service.

This did the trick

Answer 5

It is probably your Skype giving you a hard time. Try configuring your Skype this way:

Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Connection -> Unchecking the 'Use port 80...'

I had the same problem and it worked for me.

Answer 6

Fix for Windows 7 PC - Open ISS Manager -> Stop the Service from the right bar.

And select restart all service on Wamp CP.

Worked for me ;)