wampserver doesn't go green - stays orange

apache wamp wampserver
arthur picture arthur · Apr 3, 2012 · Viewed 137.7k times · Source

I am trying to install wampserver on a win7-32bit. The installation goes smoothly but the icon doesn't turn green. It stays orange saying "Server online". I've trying different solutions nothing worked: -changed apache port to 8080. -turn off IIS and other stuff - even tried to instal xampp server but that didn't work either.

What else is there to do? Thanks.

Answer

hydrogen picture hydrogen · May 7, 2012

I have had this issue before and it turned out that Skype was interferring with port 80. So you may have to look at your system to see if you have another application utilizing this port.

Anyway under Skype, to change this setting it was: Tools->Options->Advanced->Connection->Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections. Untick this, restart Skype, restart wamp.

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