WAMP5 Version 1.6.4 on Vista

No Services Running

[mvaz]

Hello, not sure if this is the right place for this thread, if I am in the wrong place, please point me in the right direction.

I recently purchased a laptop, which comes with vista home edition, and I am fairly happy with it, though I had my reservation prior to purchase. I have installed other software, which were previously tried and tested on xp, and they all work fine, except for WAMP5 Version 1.6.4. The icon on the task bar says None of 2 services runnin.

I do not know why this is showing, and what is the impact of this message, as both, php & mysql on the laptop, installed through WAMP5 are working fine.

Please advise; I am very grateful for any help and information provided - Thank you, Melwyn

[penders]

I assume this is Windows XAMPP (current version: 1.6.8)? I've not tried this with Vista yet, but from the apachefriends.org site:

Vista Note: Because missing or insufficient write permissions in the c:\program files folder of the default vista installation, we recommend to use alternate folders for XAMPP e.g. c:\xampp or c:\myfolder\xampp.

May be they aren't running as services. Do you have to start them manually?

You could check the apachefriends.org forum:
http://www.apachefriends.org/f/ [apachefriends.org]

[htdawg]

sorry to butt in but just wanted to ask if there is any difference with wampserver & xamp?

I just installed WAMP5 on xp so I could try out some cms's.

[mvaz]

Hi penders, many thanks for the info provided. Well, I tried many a times to restart them manually, but they do not seem to restart, the message still says none of the services are running..Aaargh!

Do you reckon I should uninstall and reinstall in a different folder as suggested? I don't know why the OS companies give us such grief when they rollout newer version.

Any info or help is very much appreciated.

Many thanks

[penders]

Sorry, I had not appreciated that WAMP5 (or even the later Wampserver 2.0) and XAMPP were actually different... wrapper installations of Apache, MySQL and PHP.

sorry to butt in but just wanted to ask if there is any difference with wampserver & xamp?
I just installed WAMP5 on xp so I could try out some cms's.

I think XAMPP might come with a few extras as standard... mod_perl, FileZilla, Mercury Mail? (The Wampserver 2.0 install is quite a bit smaller.) Wampserver 2.0 appears to allow you to more easily switch between multiple versions of Apache/MySQL/PHP? (But I've not tried WAMP5/wampserver so don't really know.)

I would have thought that the important factors as regards testing CMSs locally were concerned would be the versions of Apache, MySQL and PHP you have installed. Not necessarily whether you used Wampserver or XAMPP to install them? However, the 2 installations might have a different security modals?