Wamp on vista

Recommendations Resource Reviews Tips Tutorials. It eliminates the need for uploading your work to a remote server and allows you to run your scripts and test your website in a server environment.

You can even set it up to be accessible to the public, password protected, or invisible behind your firewall. Nowadays, it is easier than ever to get a complete web server setup on Windows. With a couple quick tweaks to your router and httpd.

Once you download WAMP, double click the exe and begin the install process. After agreeing to the WAMP license, select the destination location. Review your installation destination is correct. Congratulations, the installation process is complete. Yes, it was really that easy. Try to test wamp on different port to find out if port is being used by different application or blocked by your isp. Open file httpd. Posted by: sue Posted by: jw84 Hi all Don't know if this is much help but I was having major problems getting apache to start.

The system tray icon stayed yellow. Eventually I ran a port checker included in the Xampp download and it showed clearly that Port 80 was being used by another application. This application is called Kservice. I deleted the Kservice. Hope this helps JW. We were also having problem in running apache server as IIS is already running at port but we had changed the port to 81 in httpd.

I changed " localhost" to " localhost". I'm afraid I don't have a clue: unless you or some other person or software tampered with your OS install, that line should be there. Also, starting an editor with admin rights which doesn't just mean start it from an admin account should allow you to save the hosts file not host , is it a typo? Maybe you have some so-called "security" software installed, which prevents you from administering your system? Wow, that makes an incredible difference!

This has just sped up my workflow dramatically and rescued my waning patience. The only point of this change, and only on Vista, is to disable a non-operational IPv6 resolution for localhost, but Installed the latest Acquia Drupal stack on my 64 bit windows 7 machine.

Worked - but very slow response. Your one character fix worked like a charm! This should speed some things up as well, but I haven't yet located a windows version of the latest release of eAccelerator 0. This is really unrelated to the issue mentioned here, which is about the delays caused by non-optimal IPv6 mis- configuration, not about PHP itself.

Turning off UAC allows any program to edit otherwise protected files likes At work, it's on one LAMP Samba server really an older PC I no longer use with Zend Studio on my Windows box working on the files on the server, and at home or on my laptop, I just dual-boot into Ubuntu: then everything falls into place; Studio is faster, every Linux tool I'm using is there, and so on.

Some would advocate virtualization, but I tend to find that every serious work session uses just about any last percent of the resources of the non-virtualized machine, so I would not recommend this. I just wanted to say that turning off Ipv6 using the settings suggested in this blog helped my problem greatly reducing 30 secs refresh at times during development to around Page refreshes that previously took 30 secs and timeouts now take secs.

Absolutely brilliant. It's like having a new laptop. Breadcrumb Home.