WAMP Server not working

Question

Okay so a continuation from this question, where you experts intro'd me to WAMP, which can basically execute PHP within a Windows XP environment.

So now I've got it installed, but the tray icon forever shows YELLOW, and when I visit any PHP page in my browser, it just shows me the PHP source!

Also, when I visit "http://localhost/" in IE7 it gives me a 404 Not Found, FF3 just shows a blank page.

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BTW I've tried "Restart All Services" and restarting my machine, but it still won't work.

Any ideas? Any of you had this problem and solved it? Please help me here, I'm desperate to execute PHP client-side and I'm just reverting to testing on-server for now!

Answer 1

Glad you got it sorted - Skype is notorious for that.

If you want to use Skype and WAMP together, you can edit your httpd.conf file - change the 'listen' value from 80 to something else and restart all services.

Answer 2

Skype reserves port 80 for its incoming connection which conflicts with WAMP, so simply configure Skype to use another port by doing the following:

In Skype go to Tools|Options|Advanced|Connection uncheck the option --> Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections, that's it

For this change to take effect restart Skype and Restart all services on WAMP by doing the following:

Left-click WAMP tray icon > Restart All Services"

Now Wamp and Skype can co-exist together, hope this solves your problem!!

Answer 3

you can start Skype up after wamp is online or change Skypes port not to use 80