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For some unknown reason I cannot start WAMP server - The icon stays yellow no matter what: Checked port 80, and it's not used. No Skype, no Firewall. Tried MANY solutions I suggested here in stackoverflow - absolutely nothing. Tried to uninstall and reinstall - it worked for 10 minutes, then it didn't work again.

The only thing I'm changing is to include Virtual Hosts under httpd.conf. Checked every solution I could find on the net - nothing is working for me.

Maybe, just maybe it's because I previously installed PHP 5.5 apart from WAMP? If I go to PHP > PHP Extensions > then I can see there's a problem in php_opcache and php_enchant. When I click on them I get an error message that says: Could not execute menu item (internal error). [Execption] Could not perform service action: the service has not been started. The PHP Version I installed is 5.5.15. The PHP WAMP is 5.5.12... I don't have a clue how to uninstall PHP, and I couldn't find anything about that on the net.

PHP Error log says: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.5.12/ext/php_intl.dll' - %1 is not a valid Win32 application. in Unknown on line 0

EDIT - It seems like the cause for the problem is me trying to include Virtual Host via httpd.conf file. When I excluded, like in default, WAMP is online again. Any suggestion of how to include virtual host and still get WAMP get online?

yuvalsab
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    what do you mean, "wamp server"? The wamp control panel? apache? mysql? There's many components. did you check error logs for possible reasons? – Marc B Aug 26 '14 at 20:03
  • I mean it's not connecting. I don't know why, and I also don't know what to do about those Error logs. There is the Error in PHP Error log: [26-Aug-2014 18:49:13 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.5.12/ext/php_intl.dll' - %1 is not a valid Win32 application. in Unknown on line 0 – yuvalsab Aug 26 '14 at 20:05
  • Just a suggestion... While you can run all of this on your machine, if you're doing any real web development and not hosting your site on a Windows box also running WAMP (which you shouldn't), I would recommend a Vagrant box instead. Basically, a virtual machine running the same OS and versions of software as your main servers can be used for development, right on your Windows machine. Vagrant is a tool that manages this VM and makes it quick and easy to get started. I highly recommend this route. – Brad Aug 26 '14 at 20:12

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It looks like you're running on a corrupt install have you tried reinstalling the software?

Alternatively i would recommend using Xampp which basically offers the same service as Wampp only with a bit more ease of access (also allowing for Mecury mail service and an FTP server for remote access).

Durante
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  • I already tried to uninstall and the reinstall. Twice. It's working for few minutes, but then when I stop the services for whatever reason I have, and then restart the services (all of them), It's not connecting, and the icon stays yellow. I will try to reinstall one last time, and if it wouldn't work, I'll switch to Xampp, but I have to say I used WAMP for one year now, and everything was OK... – yuvalsab Aug 26 '14 at 20:45
  • Are you using a 64bit distro or 32 bits ? the some others are having issues using the 64bit distro for Wampp http://forum.wampserver.com/read.php?2,85378,printview,page=1 – Durante Aug 26 '14 at 20:49
  • 64bit, but now I'm sure the problem is with me including httpd-vhosts.conf, because when i'm excluding it from httpd, WAMP is online again. But now the problem is - How can I use virtual host? :\ – yuvalsab Aug 26 '14 at 21:01
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The problem with php_intl can be corrected easily, see this answer

In order to find out what Apache is complaining about with the Virtual Hosts definition look at the Windows Event Log or, launch a command window and 

cd \wamp\bin\apache\apachex.y.z\bin
httpd -t

This should give you filename and line number where your errors are.

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RiggsFolly
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Try changing that port number anyway. Mine stays yellow if the port number is set to 80, even though WAMP says it's not being used by any other program.

Pawel Wysocki
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