Hello.
i have just installed wamp. same laptop as xampp.
I am supposed to be able to use either as long as the other is turned off. but even though closed xampp, the localhost still points to it.
how can i go about fixing this please?
thx
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Why would you want to run both of those on the same machine. If you are in need of using different versions of PHP set-up vagrant vm’s with puphpet.
ok. fine.
but am running both on the same laptop. so puphpet aside?
Which means that its copy of Apache is still running. Whether Xampp is running or not doesn’t matter - it is the copy of Apache that is running that determines which location localhost points to.
thank you felgall. i had gone into the task manager found the the services and shut them off and that did it. but still find myself a bit beffudeld by some of this.
am trying to set a path for zend Gdata w/
include_path=".;C:\xampp\php\PEAR:.;\wamp\www\gaDataGather\Zend\Gdata:."
and am really not sure it’ll go well.
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& actually just did a phpinfo();
and will try to modify
C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\bin\php.ini
instead
this is so not fun.
You know what is fun and useful setting up a vagrant environment. Especially when you need to install some other type of software that is a complete pain in the arse to do on windows or xampp/mamp ie. ruby, node, python, solr, various extensions, etc. Using a dedicated linux environment saves ALOT of time in the short and long term. Not to mention if you’re working with a team and am able to get everyone on the same box a normalized environment for everyone to boot. Possibly a complete build script that provisions a box with a ll necessary dependencies for new hires so they don’t have to spend hours figuring out how to set-up a local environment or designers who have no idea how to set-up a local environment. Just having a “easy button” is all to possible with vagrant and puppet. So I highly recommend getting on board rather than fussing with that xampp and wamp relic crap.
Pretty sure that would not be fun either.
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Maybe not. But it would be a lot less not fun
Not surprising given I wouldn’t expect someone who uses Wordpress to embrace change…
OOOH sweet! Nothing like a snarky put down and not being able to answer the original question to change people’s mind to your point of view 
Have a great weekend!
Seems to be an answer to me
Not what you want to hear, and maybe not the best answer for you, but an answer just the same
nope
“I am supposed to be able to use either as long as the other is turned off. but even though closed xampp, the localhost still points to it. how can i go about fixing this please?”
In my case I went back to task manger and sure apache was turned off. then started wamp & put it online & it worked.
So installing yet diff programs was not necessary.
I will agree however, that more than one solution is possible. And of course going by that reasoning. Other possible but not helpfull answers could have been, "give up go fishing and have someone else figure it out’, “go watch a movie instead” & etc…
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Good enough.
All further replies please answer the specific question regardless of whether or not it is the best way to do things.
I don’ t know about that.
As it was, Oddz answer was not the best solution for my problem. The wordpress put down seemed also unnecessary to me. While i had to pick up wordprdss for my job and find it a very nice cms drupal is next on my list of things to learn and ironically i was trying to get zend to work w/ xampp or wamp for an entirely non wordpress poject. Also installing vagrant, puphet and so would have had to be done on my work laptop. I wasn’t ready to do that.
But whatever.
If you’re going to use both (but not at the same time), when closing one select “Stop All Services” if it’s WAMP or the equivalent in XAMP before quitting the program
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