My WAMP Server is not working after fresh installa

Question

The port is clear, and I have Skype listening on a different port, I just installed WAMP and I have attempted to restart the server.

The tray icon is perpetually RED despite me restarting and starting.

The error Google Chrome sends me when I attempt to visit localhost is: Google Chrome's connection attempt to localhost was rejected. The website may be down, or your network may not be properly configured.

Any input as to go about getting WAMP working?

Answer 1

Most likely port 80 is already in use. You'll have to open your httpd.conf file and change

Listen 80 

to something else like

Listen 8080

Start your server and then instead of navigating to

http://localhost/ 

navigate to

http://localhost:8080

Answer 2

• Stop WAMP
• netstat -ano|find ":80" in command-line
• look for port 80 in the left column, and the PID in the right column
• look up the pid on the right in your running services (Task Manager) to determine which application is using port 80
• You may need to go to "View" -> "Select columns..." and check "PID"

Answer 3

1. have a look into Windows Event log

2. use a portscanner that dedects other services listening on port 80 (I think wampserver and xampp do have such a tool included)

3. have a look into apache log

4. check your local windows firewall