Wamp Server Windows 11
Kylee Evancho
I have 2 computers in my network. Both computer A and computer B have wamp server installed. when I type the ip address of computer A from computer B I am able to connect to it. But when I do it the other way around it does not work! In other words when I type the ip address of computer B from computer A the browsers says: server at 192.168.0.120 is taking to long to respond.
first of allPort 80(or what ever you are using) and 443 must be allow for both TCP and UDP packets. To do this, create 2 inbound rules for TPC and UDP on Windows Firewall for port 80 and 443.(or you can disable your whole firewall for testing but permanent solution if allow inbound rule)
I had to uninstall my anti virus! Before uninstalling I clicked on the option where it said to disable auto-protect for 15 min. I also clicked on another option that supposibly disabled the anti-virus. That still was blocking my server! I don't understand why Norton makes it so hard to literally stop doing everything it's doing. I know I could had solve it by adding an exception to the firewall but Norton was taking care of windows firewall as well.
I know this is an old post BUT I have been having problems getting WAMP server seen on my windows 7 pro network for days, tried all of the solutions offered (including changing windows system files) but still not working. finally in pure desperation I put everything on the system back as it was and installed WAMP Server on a different drive (E:\WAMP ) in my case. The result was it worked perfectly first time with no editing configs or messing with the system. Other users may wish to try this before reaching the 'tear your hair out stage', it certainly saved my sanity or what I have left of itI hope this helps someoneDave
I had the same problem but mine worked fine. Turn off your firewall, antivirus. Make sure your port 80 is enabled and both pcs are set to be remotely accessed. In each pc under users, add new user using the host ip address of the other pc. Restart all services. Put your wampserver online. It should connect
Recently I have upgraded from windows 7 64 to windows 10 64.Before that I've had WAMPServer running like a charm, but now it doesn't work.Whenever I launch it I get the server offline. Clicking on the "put online" results only in getting the "could not perform service action" error pop up.I have already tried reinstalling Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4, renaming the localhost and listen from 80 to 8080, turning off skype, none of these worked.
I would have suggested that you didn't upgrade to.windows 10 as operating usually have bugs at early launch. Next time run new Operating system on Virtual PC first before going for full.system upgrade.
Change the port number to e.g. 8084? If available because 80 still 8080.
I got this issue intermittently and i found out it was Skype. Closing Skype and restarting all services in WAMP fixed the issue for me. If you have other means of instant messengers open, try closing those too. You need to free up port 80.
People are missing step 4 to prevent having to stop the service after every restart. Pretty sure its in the instructions when installing the latest version of WAMP, but just noting it here in case someone is reading some of the above comments mentioning this method.
i had the same problem smdrhk.biz i use:Go to Start, type in services.mscScroll down in the Services window to find the World Wide Web Publishing Service.Right click on it and select Stop.Double click on World Wide Web Publishing and set "Startup Type" to "Manual"Restart WAMP
Previously my Wamp Server was working fine and later it suddenly stopped working and I tried all the solutions above but none has helped me. I finally solved it by reinstalling the WAMP server. So my suggestion for everyone would be, instead of trying various solutions to make it work and you dont know whether you would get the solution or not. You never know how much amount of time you would waste when trying this all things. My suggestion would be ,copy all the files that are already in the server including the database. Try to reinstall the server. It will surely work.
So you want host your own website, well you found the right post. If you have a spare Windows machine and some time, I will show you how to host your own website using WAMP server from your home or office. In this post I will show you the steps I took to configure WAMP to start my web server and host my own website for testing and personal projects.
Any of these project can be easily hosted from your own web server without having to pay a company for web hosting. However, I would NOT recommend this approach if you are doing anything complex, like a business or eCommerce site, or generally a site that you expect to grow and get a lot of traffic, as most ISP would not allow this and even if they do you will probably end up having to invest more time and money on better software and hardware to keep up. Rather, I recommend using a good web host, like SiteGround or GreenGeeks, to do these types of projects.
In my case, I want to test a tool like MainWP without the restrictions of a web host and I do not want to spend a lot of money for VPS hosting, so for me it makes sense to run this on my own web server. I have an HP ProLiant mini server which is a nice and small eco-friendly machine that is always on. Hosting my website on it will not only save me money but it will allow me to change any parameters typically not allowed in shared hosting plans, like memory limits and max execution timeouts (ugh!).
In my case, I will need to consider any roles my server has before adding WAMP to serve my web pages. Currently, my server is running IIS to allow me to view, save, and retrieve files from my home network as well as from the outside world via a web browser. If I want to use WAMP Server, I will need to disable the IIS service.
I have a separate post on how to do this if you need help with this step. Simply download wamp server from wampserver.com/en/ and take the defaults. Once it is installed you will notice the green light on the wamp icon on your system tray.
Now you will want to make wampmanager.exe start when Windows starts. So in case you re-start your server, or it re-starts itself due to Windows updates, power surges, or other unpredictable cause, your are covered.
This is a very important step. I suggest making a strong password with upper and lower case letters and numbers, throw in a couples of symbols too. There are a few ways to do this, one is by going to the MySQL console and typing the appropriate commands, another way is via the GUI (graphical user interface) using SQL Buddy or PHPMyAdmin. Go to my post on how to set the Root password for MySQL for steps by steps instructions on how to do this.
Now we need to make Apache listen to port 80 on our host machine. For this, open your httpd.conf file found under C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache[version#]\conf and edit the following lines:
Please note that WAMP Server is commonly used for local development, and not as a hosting platform for production as it is inherently un-secure. However, you can take some measures to secure it like the ones I am going to suggest here.
and place it in your root (www) and that should take care of things. To create an .htacces file in Windows check out this post on StackOverFlow. Also, check out Perishablepress htaccess tricks page for some cool things you can do with htaccess files to greatly enhance your websites security.
I wrote this tutorial based on my own experience with WAMP and what I have learned from others on the internet. I am not a security expert so if you have any suggestions on how to further secure WAMP or you have some best practices please feel free to let me know in the comments below.
Disclosure: Please note some of the links in this post are affiliate links, which will allow me to get a small commission if you end up purchasing/or using the recommended product. You will be helping me out and the cost of the product will still be the same. Thank you!
Hi Henry,
I have done same things and am able to access my webpage from outside. I wish I would have find your site before. Anyways, the question is, how safe is it? Is this method prone to hackers? is it safer to use web hosting services?
Hi archana, I think implementing some of the suggestions on this post will go a long way but remember that nothing is 100% secure. I would only use this for personal projects though. I recommend using a good web host for anything that involves sensitive information, like e-commerce.
Hi farzad, you can definitely use your own domain name. You will need to register the domain and get Dynamic DNS service to be able to point the domain to your web server. This is the typical option for non-static IPs. A company named No-IP provides Dynamic DNS service that works great. You can check out their page for more info: -access. They have a free option but you will have to use domains provided by them. Hope this helps ?
Hi Levi, 127.0.0.1 is your loopback address. The ServerName is the IP address of your server. On most home routers this is normally an internal IP that starts in 192.168.x.x. Hope this helps. Thank you for the comment ?
Great walk through ,
had some issues with using this method on win 10 , but I was using the 3.04 snapshot of WAMP .
after going back to the 2.5 flavor of WAMP, everything installed and setup smoothly . My intentions are just to use this as a simple server to host a page for my son and his friends video game clan . Thanks for the help!
I want to know that i have web domain from godaddy, i am trying to do as per your step, but i am not able to see my website if i type my web domain, i am changing virtual host in apache, also in windows, I have also with me static ip from my ISP.
I want to know i have to write 127.0.0.1 to godaddy manage domain page? or my static ip?
In Short I have web domain from registrar godaddy, i will download wamp to my laptop harddisk, this domain i want to attach wamp which i have downloaded, can you give the step by step blog?