browsing WAMP localhost shows blank page - apache

After downloading and installing WAMP, I visit http://localhost in Firefox. It's showing a blank page. Here are some factors:
No Skype
Windows Vista Home Basic SP2
Firewall is off
Deleted the ::1 localhost in c/windows/system32/drivers/etc/host
Tried changing port to 8080 in httpd.conf
When I go to Apache/services/test 80 it shows:
your port 80 is actually used by..........
How can this be fixed?

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Same issue, here is the solution !
Cause :
Another program (Skype but not only) is using the port80 (which is by default the one used by wamp).
You can see it typing the following command "netstat -ano" and looking what is on "localadress 0.0.0.0.80", if you want to see the concerned program open, note the number at the end of the line (4 for example), then open taskmanager, services, and see who is on PID 4.
Solution :
Let's change wamp port to 81 !
Change wamp port from 80 to 81

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localhost:8888 to localhost MAMP PRO mac [duplicate]

I have both apache and mySQL running with the default MAMP ports (8888 and 8889 respectively) and everything seems to work, but when I switch the ports to 80 for Apache and 3306 for mySQL, the mySQL server is unable to restart.
I am trying to setup MAMP to run on these ports because apparently this is optimal for developing in dreamweaver... Thus, given that I would like to have the ideal dev environment for dreamweaver, is there a way around using the 3306 port? Or, what could the potential problems be?
Thanks
Just in case anyone is having the same problem, here is how I fixed it:
I opened the Activity Monitor program and selected "All Processes"
Next I search for "mysqld" in the search text field. There is a good chance that you have an instance of mysql running and you have to find it and hit quit process.
Restart MAMP and you should be all set.
i posted my solution here..
but will it annoy the editor gods to re-post? i found this works so clearly and consistently that it's worth evangelizing.
fix courtesy of Abhinav Sood.
Launch MAMP. Open Terminal by typing terminal into Spotlight (Command + Space).
Open MAMP Preferences (Command + , ) and click on Reset MAMP Ports
(Port 8888 and Port 8889 for Apache and MySQL respectively).
Click on OK.
Switch to the terminal. Type sudo apachectl stop to shutdown the system Apache.
Restart MAMP.
Open MAMP Preferences once again and click on Set to Default Apache and MySQL ports. This will set the Apache and MySQL ports to 80 and 3306 respectively.
Switch to the terminal. Type sudo apachectl restart to restart Apache.
Switch back to MAMP and click on Open Start Page (or go to http://localhost/MAMP/?language=English in your browser)
And you’re done.
I configured httpd.conf.
In that file just replace:
Listen 80
for
Listen localhost:80
restart mamp. It worked for me.
#Mazal
Finally I found your great great solution of fixing this localhost:80 and apachectl issue. However, the issue will resume back when after re-start against!!!!!!
So fix this goto perference-->when quiting MAMP--> [uncheck] the box stop server.
this will keep the port setting to localhost:80 and apachectl in green light.
cheers!

Wampserver did not work on localhost

I just installed Wampserver. after installing it, the icon color is green and say the server is online. then I tried localhost on my browser. it showed "the site can't be reach" but when I entered http://127.0.0.1/ it works and displays Wampserver homepage. Why it did not work when I entered "localhost"? it only can enter http://127.0.0.1/ . Is there something that I must change in the settings? when I tried to change the port be port 80, it showed "CLI stop working".
localhost does not exists automatically. Its actually a domain name you have to create on your PC. You do this by adding it to your HOSTS file.
Edit the file C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Add these lines to it
localhost 127.0.0.1
localhost ::1
You also need the ::1 version as well as that is IPV6, and lots of browsers will attempt to use the IPV6 network in preference to the IPV4 (127.0.0.1)
You will have to be an Administrator to edit this file as it is protected by windows.
Or open your editor by right clicking on it, and selecting the "Run as Administrator" menu option.

How to change the port number of Apache in Xampp

I am a novice I do not know anything about port numbers and how to change them. While installing Xampp on my windows 8.1 it is showing Error in port that apache has to use. How can I resolve this port issue and which port number I should change it to
Please help me out
This is the error coming while running xampp
Open xamp, click on http.conf and search ServerName localhost
ServerName localhost:8181
I have set 8181 as my port, it will be 80 change it to 81 (since 80 is being used VMware in your case and it is used by skype too).
Reset the server after saving it..
This is a common issue. For an example Developers can run Java web applications on JBoss server and at the same time test PHP project on XAMMP server. To make both servers up and carry out developments, port numbers need to be changed. Following is the way for changing port number in XAMMP Server.
If the XAMPP server is running for the moment, stop XAMPP server.
Follow these steps to change the port number.
Open the file in following location.
[XAMPP Installation Folder]/apache/conf/httpd.conf
Open the httpd.conf file and search for the String:
Listen 80
This is the port number used by XAMMP.
Then search for the string ServerName and update the Port Number which you entered earlier for Listen
Now save and re-start XAMPP server.

WAMP: Cannot Connect To Localhost

I'm just stuck on one little thing here but here is what I've done so far using websites and video tutorials (Note: I'm Running on Windows 10 and using Microsoft Edge as a browser for WAMP).
Disabled Skype
I went into the little WAMP menu/apache/httpd.conf and changed LISTEN
to port 81.
It still said port 80 was being used by Windows IIS 10.0 so I went into the Command Prompt as admin and used "iisreset /stop". Now WAMP is green and online, yay.
I enter localhost at the top of the WAMP menu and it brings me to a webpage saying "Make sure you’ve got the right URL: http://localhost".
I have gone into (C:)/Wamp/www and changed a line of code in "index" to $suppress_localhost = false;. Nothing changed.
Now I'm in (C:)/Windows/System32/drivers/etc and editing the "hosts" file. The edit is simply uncommenting my ip address which will supposedly reveal where WAMP should be going. It will not allow me to save it unless I give myself full control which is done by right clicking the file and selecting properties. However, when I try to save the file it fails and says "Please check if this file is open in another program". This is what I am stuck on.
Does anyone know how to check what other programs are using this file or is there another method of connecting to localhost to WAMP?
Thanks in advance!
First return Apache's listening port to 80.
Doing this "iisreset /stop" will only stop IIS until the next reboot. So it is better to uninstall IIS completely if you are not using it.
This I enter localhost at the top of the WAMP menu and it brings me to a webpage saying "Make sure you’ve got the right URL is probably due to the fact that there is more than once place where you need to change the listening port in apache, so when you put it back to
Listen 0.0.0.0:80
Listen [::0]:80
This will probably go away
SKYPE: You can configure SKYPE to not use port 80 or 443, but as far as I know you cannot do this to the tiles SKYPE, so uninstall that and then install the SKYPE App (from the SKYPE website). This can be reconfigured like this :-
Start SKYPE,
Menu Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Connection
On this dialog, Uncheck the checkbox labeled
Use port 80 and 443 for additional incoming connections
and add a number to the `use port` field, something like `33333`
SKYPE should no longer attempt to use port 80.
The HOSTS file is protected by Windows, and possibly your Anti Virus also tried to protect it. To amend the HOSTS file you have to elavate your privilages to Administrator, and before you say you are, you are not. Start a command windows using the "Run as Administrator" option.
CD into C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
run notepad hosts
Make your changes and save them
Host file should contain at least
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost

How to solve "Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly"?

I've just re-installed XAMPP, and when I try to start my Apache server in the XAMPP Control Panel, I now get the following errors:
16:50:25 [Apache] Status change detected: running
16:50:26 [Apache] Status change detected: stopped
16:50:26 [Apache] Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly.
16:50:26 [Apache] This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies,
16:50:26 [Apache] improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method.
16:50:26 [Apache] Press the Logs button to view error logs and check
16:50:26 [Apache] the Windows Event Viewer for more clues
16:50:26 [Apache] If you need more help, copy and post this
16:50:26 [Apache] entire log window on the forums
How do I solve this?
As I am working in a corporate environment where developers faces firewall issues, none of the other answers resolved my issue.
As the port is not used by Skype, but by some other internal applications,
I followed the below steps to resolve the issue:
Step 1 - From the XAMPP Control Panel, under Apache, click the Config button, and select the Apache (httpd.conf).
Inside the httpd.conf file, somehow I found a line that says:
Listen 80
And change the 80 into any number / port you want. In my scenario I’m using port 8080.
Listen 8080
Still from the httpd.conf file, I found another line that says:
ServerName localhost:80
Change 80 to 8080.
ServerName localhost:8080
Step 2 - From the XAMPP Control Panel, under Apache, click the Config button again, but this time select the Apache (httpd-ssl.conf). Inside the httpd-ssl.conf file, find line that says
Listen 443
And change the 443 into any number / port you want. I’ll using 4433 as the new port number.
Listen 4433
Still from the httpd-ssl.conf file, find another line that says
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
ServerName localhost:443
And change 443 to 4433.
<VirtualHost _default_:4433>
ServerName localhost:4433
Remember to save the httpd.conf and httpd-ssl.conf files after performing some changes. Then restart the Apache service.
Open Skype.
Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Connection.
Uncheck the "Use port 80 and 443 for alternatives for incoming connections" checkbox
Sign Out and Close all Skype windows. Try restarting your Apache.
In XAMPP Control Panel V3.2.1, click on "NetStat" button on top right. Make sure port 80 is not used by any other program. Then click on "Shell" Right below it. Issue this command in the shell prompt;
Apache_Start.bat
or type "ap" then tab the TAB key two times which will similarly generate the above command.
You will actually see the exact error why Apache failed. It will be mostly likely virtual host configuration issue or may be something else. It will display the line number on which the error is occurring. Just fix that error. Note that in RootDocument a trailing \ can be a source of error as well. Remove any trailing "".
One thing you can do is to stop the services on port 80 by issuing
net stop http
in a cmd. You'll be asked if you're sure you want to stop those services. I found out that I had a few services I wasn't using and disabled them.
To see who else is using port 80 type in a cmd
netstat -abno
I'm assuming you want to run Apache on port 80. If this is the case and you want to keep the conflicting services you will need to associate them to a new port.
If the problem is not a busy port you can also try the following: select "show debug information" in the XAMPP config panel. When starting Apache you'll be shown something like "Executing "c:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe". If you run that
c:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe
in a cmd you will get some more information (I once for instance had some issue with my httpd.conf file).
Related: How do I free my port 80 on localhost Windows? and Apache won't run in xampp
Follow these steps:
Open your XAMPP control panel then click its "Config"
Choose the "Apache (httpd.conf)" and find this code below and change it into this one:
#Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below
#to prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses.
#Listen 0.0.0.0:80
#Listen [::]:80
Listen 80
# Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support
Save it (Ctrl + S)
After that, go back to the XAMPP control panel and click its config again.
Choose "Apache (httpd-ssl.conf)", find this code below, and change it again:
# Note: Configurations that use IPv6 but not IPv4-mapped addresses need two
# Listen directives: "Listen [::]:443" and "Listen 0.0.0.0:443"
#
#Listen 0.0.0.0:443
#Listen [::]:443
Listen 443
Save it (Ctrl + S)
Then, click the "config" (note: above the netstat) and click the "service and port settings".
Change "Main Port" to 8080 and "SSL Port" to 4433, then save it.
Finally, go to the "control panel" -> "Programs & Features" -> "Turn Windows On or Off".
Uncheck your "Internet Information Services", and then click OK.
Just wait for it and your computer/laptop will be automatically restart and try to open your XAMPP control panel again, and then start your Apache.
My problem was that in httpd.conf the DocumentRoot and <Directory> entries were pointing to non-existing folders.
For example, the 'original' httpd.conf had the following entries:
DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/htdocs"
<Directory "c:/Apache24/htdocs">
If you've installed in C:\xampp then you need to change those entries to match, i.e.
DocumentRoot "c:/xampp/htdocs"
<Directory "c:/xampp/htdocs">
This worked for me...
If you are using windows...
Search 'cmd' in the windows search bar.
Enter this:C:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe
Find which file and which line the error occurred.
For example, mine was in the file below
on line 37.
httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf
Open the code and fix the error by either removing the line or fixing it.
Done! I should work now.
:)
If you're using Windows 7 . Search for IIS in Windows search (Click the Window icon in left bottom and type in where it says 'Search program and files') .
Open IIS (Internet Information Service) .
In the right side in actions panel. Click Stop.
Note: The stop link is faded in screen shot. As I've stopped it.
Problem Solved!
I had the same issue, and it turns out I forgot to run setup_xampp.bat (portable version).
It seems that no one has answered about executing xampp_start.exe.
I did all the previous answers but it did not fixed my issue. I found out that running xampp_start.exe will give you a detailed info about the issue.
This is what I see on my end:
As you can see I was having a path issue or xampp is pointing to non-existing folder.
When I found that there was no process using port 80 by using commands
netstat -abno | find ":80"
there was not a problem of any process using port 80.
Then I ran command (in cmd)
C:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe
it showed some error in the virtual hosts configuration in httpd-vhosts.conf file which was recently edited by me for installation in a WordPress PHP environment in the Eclipse IDE. So I deleted those lines and Apache started perfectly.
The simple thing that you can do is to check if Skype or VMware is installed in your machine or not.
Skype uses port 80 and 443 as an additional port for incoming connections. To change the port number in Skype, go to
Tools > Connection Options > Connection
in the Skype window. Now change the default 80 port number to something other.
VMware Workstation uses port 443 for sharing. To change this, open VMware Workstation and goto
Edit > Preferences > Shared Vms
Click "Change Settings" buton
Then Click "Disable Sharing"
Then change the https port number being used (443)
Then you can click "Enable Sharing" button
That's all you have to do. Restart XAMPP and run the Apache server.
I had the same problem sometime back. I had a old laptop, on which almost all the ports were either blocked or were malfunctioning. This is how I did it.
Open the XAMPP control panel.
Click on Config
Then, go into Apache httpd.conf file. Open it with a text editor.
Search for "80" (Do Ctrl + F and find all of them. Replace it with 8080 or 4040 or 4000).
Save the file. And restart XAMPP.
It worked well for me, and I hope it helps you too.
For me, world wide web publishing-service was using port 80. I killed this by running the following command on cmd:
net stop http
After that, XAMPP ran Apache without any problems.
One of the causes could be that you are not running the XAMPP Control Panel as an administrator.
This error occurs because the port, which is allocated for Apache, is used by another program. To check the application which uses the port, which we allocated for Apache, it can be had by clicking,
Netstat button.
This is the Netstat file,
At first, I have allocated port 8080 for Apache, and I recently installed Oracle DB.TNSLSNR.exe has used 8080 port now.
So, by looking at this file we can choose a port which is not clashing with other applications. In my case, port 8060 is not clashing with any application. By selecting that we can change the httpd.conf file (XAMPP control panel -> Config) as mentioned above.
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open folder XAMPP run setup_xampp.bat
run xampp-control.exe
Sometimes the issue is not a port issue but may be due to a misconfiguration that you did and Apache is not logging the error on the Event Viewer in Windows. To go around this, simply
cd C:\xampp\apache\bin
and then run
httpd.exe
Apache will then spit out the error for you e.g. as below
AH00526: Syntax error on line 2 of C:/xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'This', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
I hope that helps some poor soul :)
In my case, this issue was caused by an attempt to download other product of bitnami, like WordPress. That's common when we install WordPress via XAMPP. It is placed in the xampp/app directory that can be accessed from the XAMPP application homepage.
As a solution, I removed the default installed WordPress from the xampp directory and manually installed WordPress in the htdocs folder of WordPress by downloading it and extracting zip files into the htdoc folder. You also need to restart XAMPP or may system after uninstalling/removing the default WordPress. All is OK for me now.
Make at first sure your \xampp folder is in the root! This is important as the path is relative.
Then make sure you run the xampp_control.exe with admin rights.
Then change the files below to avoid issues with blocked port 80.
In \xampp\xampp-control.ini it should be set:
[ServicePorts]
Apache=8080
ApacheSSL=4433
Find \xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf and set:
Listen 8080
ServerName localhost:8080
Find \xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-ssl.conf and set:
Listen 4433
<VirtualHost _default_:4433>
ServerName www.example.com:4433
Then end all services and restart xampp-control.exe with admin rights. It should run!
I have just encountered this error on my xampp v3.2.2 [win 10 pro x64],
I first tried to run the "net stop http" command in an admin cmd, but it didnt solve the issue, so I went ahead to try the "netstat -abno" command and i found out that the ssl port(443) was in use by vmware.
so my advice, don't just look for what's blocking port 80, also look for potential programs using port 443. because I really don't like changing my default port numbers to 8081 and 4433.
So this is how you can solve this issue...
firstly type the following command
net stop http
then try to start apache, if it still doesn't work. type out the following command
netstat -abno
and you'll definitely get that troublesome app that's using up your precious port.
copy the pid and then use the following command
taskkill /f /pid PID
where PID is the pid you copied.
Hopefully this helps someone.
In my case port was already used by windows IIS service.
You can check if port is being already used from cmd. Open cmd and run this command:
netstat -ano
If it is being used by IIS you can stop it by following command. Open cmd as administrator, then:
iisreset /stop
Now try running XAMPP, it should work.
You can run apache_start.bat file from XAMPP directory for see details about your error details.
Try the following, none of the above solved it for me
Select "Run as administrator"
Then click on the big left box next to Apache
And Choose to uninstall Apache
I have no idea why this worked but it solved my problem directly!
Step 1: In Apache go to Config then select Apache(httpd.conf)
In the notepad, find Listen 80 and add another 80 to change the port to become Listen 8080
Make sure to save before closing the notepad.
Step 2: In Apache go to Config the select Apache(httpd-ssl.conf)
In the notepad, find Listen 443 and add another 3 after 443 to change the port to become Listen 4433
Then search for VirtualHost default:443 and add another 3 to change the port to become VirtualHost default:4433
Make sure to save before closing the notepad.
(Note: There is a similar answer here but it did not work for me until I fond a video on YT)
I solved the problem with stopping the service "Web Deployment Agent Service". Open: System -> Computer Management -> Services -> Web Deployment Agent Service. Stop this service and starting XAMPP works.
I think this is a service by MS Webmatrix.
(German: Systemsteuerung -> System und Sicherheit -> Verwaltung -> Dienste -> Webbereitstellungs-Agent-Dienst)
Best solution
open XAMPP control panel,click on config for Apache, then click on Apache(httpd.config).now in the text editor . ctrl+f --> find "Listen 80" and replace it with "Listen 8079" wtihout the quotations :)
but now you have to use it like this http://localhost:8079/
P.S, I tried to change port settings for skype , stopping the Web Deployment Agent Service which I could not find in windows 10,cmd--> net stop http, and other methods but nothing worked except this .
I had the exact same error message as the OP, but my problem was not addressed by any of the existing answers. Many of the answers deal with conflicts on port 80, which I knew I did not have, since I had had localhost responding on port 80 very recently.
Turns out I had inadvertently changed ServerRoot when I intended to change DocumentRoot (stupid, I know), and though the new ServerRoot directory existed, it did not contain the configuration files and other stuff apache needed, which caused it to fail on startup. The error message probably addresses this scenario by the wording 'missing dependencies'.
On my Windows system, setting ServerRoot back to C:/XAMPP/apache solved the problem.
The Apache server by default runs on ports 80, 443. Your problem is one or both of the two ports are busy. Usually Skype or VMware Workstation use these two ports. So, make sure that they're not running. The best way to make sure the ports are free on windows is :
Click windows button.
In the search bar type resmon, to open the resource monitor resmon.exe.
Open Listening Ports, this will show you the opened used ports.
Now you can see which process is using ports 80 and 443.
Then you can kill the process either from CMD using its PID (which is shown in the resource monitor), or directly from Task Manager.
To kill a process from CMD using PID type Taskkill /PID 26356 /F, where 26356 is the PID.
Best Solution for windows user is :
Open netstat (from XAMPP CONTROL PANEL)
Find PID of process which uses port 80.
Open CMD with Administrative.
Run taskkill /pid PID (instead PID use pid u found from netstat)
Heyy enjoy u Done.....