Cannot access phpmyAdmin after installing WAMP

  • frisson

    (@frisson)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    I am trying to install WP locally.
    I installed WAMP
    I went to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/, nothing happens. No error message,…nothing. I am very new to this and so do not know what to do next…

    I saw on some forum that I should remove the localhost line in the host file. Tried this, but I could not save it. And I AM logged in as adminstrator.

    When I hover over the WAMPServer icon, it says its offline. Is this important? I tried to start it several times, but nothing seems to happen.

    Thanks

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  • LyleChamney

    (@lylechamney)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    When I hover over the WAMPServer icon, it says its offline. Is this important?

    Yes. It has to say Online and the ‘W’ icon needs to be green.

    AFAIK, WAMP will only run as a Windows Service and not as regular ‘program’, that is, when you double click the wampmanager.exe to start it, it should start the two Windows Services wampapache and wampmysqld. The ‘W’ icon should go from red to orange to green.

    However, if for some reason those two services have been disabled, doing the above will never work. You will have to manually enable them via Task Manager > Services > Services.

    Thread Starter frisson

    (@frisson)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    Thanks, I figured it out. In effect the Apache service was not started and the W icon was orange. Starting or restarting all services from the icon did nothing. I was able to start Apache by itself from the WAMP icon. Why the first did not work and the second did is not clear to me.

    Thread Starter frisson

    (@frisson)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Hi again,….

    Thought this was fixed. It turns out that I cannot start Apache from the WAMP interface if Skype is running. I need to kill Skype first. Anybody know why or if there is a work around? Its a nuisance to be obliged to kill Skype.

    R

    LyleChamney

    (@lylechamney)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    In skype:

    Go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Connections and uncheck the box “use port 80 and 443 as alternative”.

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