Cannot run localhost in my new Internet Connection

PHP
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Recently I’ve moved & got wireless internet connection at my home & got a new laptop also bt the problem is localhost is not running in wampserver! It just says waiting in the browser! I’ve googled, & according to some research it says to change the port number bt I didn’t find any line in php.ini file that shows up my port! How do I find it & anything else to do! Please help, cannot run my scripts for this silly problem :frowning: :frowning:

I’m running wampserver 2.2 64bit on Win 7 Home Premium

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One problem I had with WAMP server is that I have to start up WAMP server first, and then Skype, because otherwise Skype blocks the port WAMP server wants to use.
I’m sure I could solve it changing the port WAMP server uses, but I have no idea how to do that :wink:

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To change the port, look in Apache’s httpd.conf file, search it for “listen” and you will see that it is set to port 80, I suspect if you change it you will need to do something like,
localhost:8080
To make it work (assuming you changed the port to 8080).

Before changing the port, are you absolutely sure Apache is running?

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yeah apache is running…i changed the port to 8080 still the same! ran localhost:8080, browser still looking for it!

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Is “127.0.0.1 localhost” defined in your hosts file?

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To find out if Skype/port 80 is the problem just shut down Skype and see what happens - if you are using Skype that is :wink:

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Look in windows >> system32 >> drivers >> etc
There is a file there called hosts, make sure it has an entry,
127.0.0.1 localhost

Also you can point your browser to http://127.0.0.1 to see if it pulls up a page. I really don’t think you have a port issue, my Skype and Apache play well together.

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If you’ve moved to win7 64b then you may have a problem with Apache actually running. I use the uniformserver and found that I had to grant the program administrative rights or it wouldn’t run properly. It would run but not serve anything… then it would randomly quit.

Right click, properties>Compatibility>Change settings for all users>Run this program as an administrator>Ok your way out.

That did it for me.