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I have installed Wamp on my compuer running Windows 8.1 (64bit). It does not going to online (green). It's still showing orange.

I already tried to configure the Web development agent service and it is still not running now.

I tested the Apache port and it shows:

Your port 80 is not actually used.

Press enter to exit....

How to start Wamp on my OS. I do not using Skype in computer.

Anybody please help me.

Thanks

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Start your os console as an admin then type the system command "netstat -ab", it will display all used ports on your system and which programs are using these ports.

Anas

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  • hi anas, port 80 is not using any of the service. is there any make correction in my http.con file ? – Jishad Oct 15 '14 at 17:05
  • can you test this url in your browser and post results http: // 127.0.0.1 may be IIS already using this port – Anas Oct 15 '14 at 17:07
  • try to change the port in httpd.conf file ? ex: Listen 8080 Then use http://127.0.0.1:8080 Just to be sure that's your wamp config is OK – Anas Oct 15 '14 at 17:13
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Secret ancient knowledge aquired via my friend, Google:

Step 1:

If you are getting the "your port 80 not actually used" in Windows 8

when you test port 80 from wamp icontray > apache > services > test port 80

open httpd.conf from wamp icontray > apache >httpd.conf and locate the line

#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
Listen 80

Make sure the line Listen 80 is uncommented and is as it is above and if you had changed to Listen 0:0:0:0:80 change it back to

Listen 80

Step 2:

Got to the hosts file C:/windows/system32/Drivers/etc and make sure it only contains 127.0.0.1 localhost and not ::1 ie make sure its shows #::1 if the ::1 is present

#::1
127.0.0.1 localhost

If you get an error "403 Access forbidden" when you try to access phpMyAdmin go to step 3

Step 3: (Step courtesy Peter mortensen comment posted in stackoverflow.com link)

Change the content of c:/wamp/apps/alias/phpmyadmin.conf to the following

<directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.5/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

NB: The phpMyAdmin remains the version you have installed mine was c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.5/

The main thing here is to remove Deny from All and Allow from 127.0.0.1

Then restart Apache server after this and you are good to go.

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