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Wamp server problem solved.

June 8, 2008 By 3 Comments


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Any technology problem that swallows endless hours of my time, compels me to post solutions so someone else can avoid the same pitfalls. Wamp server is an apache, php, mysql bundle for dynamic website development (a localhost environment). The problem I ran into was I could not browse my local host or load phpmyadmin. It was driving me insane because the server was clearly communicating with the index.php file but would not load. So after numerous uninstalls and reinstalls of Wamp I finally decided to track port 80 (duh!). The port 80 was having a conflict with Skype that also uses port 80. So long story short if Wamp installs and you can’t render anything to the browser, skype is probably running.

As always sorry to the non-geek readers….but I know my previous 1and1 cpanel migration to mysql saved people in the past based on the hits.



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  • Silverboyfru

    This is correct. End skype. and remove it from Task manager –> processes–> skype.
    it will work

  • Sohail Alee

    Thanks alot.. i also had the problem but its fixed now.. because i hav IDM installed on my pc.

  • Chase

    I’ve come across this solution everywhere on the internet, but it doesn’t work for me :(

    I’ve asked every developer I know, and nobody can figure out what’s wrong.  Localhost just gives me a 404.  If I try to create an alias, it beeps in gives me an error popup: “Could not execute menu item (internal error) [Exception] Could not perform service action: The service has not been started” This happens for a number of other operations.  I’ve reinstalled twice.

    I’m on Windows 7, and I don’t have IIS running (which also steals port 80).  Do you have ANY idea what might be causing this?  I had a very similar problem when I tried to use EasyPHP, which is more or less the same.