If you have done clean installation of Windows 10, you may not have the Word Wide Web Publishing Service. In that case, simple WAMP/XAMPP installation should work fine.
Shortly after the Windows 10 Technical Preview was made available, I was excited to try it out. And so I did. Everything was pretty cool until I tried starting WAMP, just to find out that it never starts( stuck at the yellow state in the notification area ). Whenever a new version of Windows comes up there is something or the other wrong with WAMP.Skype wasn’t the problem this time because I didn’t have it installed. I also removed the modern Skype that comes installed with the Technical Preview. Neither it was the IPV6 issue which stopped it from working on Windows 8.
As I figured out, the port 80 was being used by a native service named - World Wide Web Publishing Service. Stopping it and restarting WAMP did the trick. Here’s how to locate and stop the service.[screenshot below]- Go to Start, type in services.msc
- Scroll down in the Services window to find the World Wide Web Publishing Service.
- Right click on it and select Stop.
Now restart WAMP and you should be good to go.UPDATE - In the newer versions of Windows 10, you may not find the World Wide Web Publishing Service. If WAMP isn’t working even then, try the next approach.
As I figured out, the port 80 was being used by a native service named - World Wide Web Publishing Service. Stopping it and restarting WAMP did the trick. Here’s how to locate and stop the service.[screenshot below]
If you don’t want to do it that way though, you can change the port WAMP listens to. Here’s how to do that.- Click on the WAMP icon in system tray.
- Select Apache > httpd.conf
- Search for Listen 80.
- Change 80 to any other port number e.g. - 9080.
- Restart WAMP.
This will work. However, you will now be required to use that port number everywhere for access. E.g - http://localhost:9080/ instead of just http://localhost/
http://localhost:9080/ instead of just http://localhost/I guess have tried to help,help others by sharing it,your comment is highly welcome
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