WAMP server shows a blank page

Question

MY WAMP server has broken down.

http://localhost

shows a blank page. any help please?

Answer 1

For those who only have skype installed (no other applications hogging port 80), a temporary workaround is to quit your skype, then start your WAMPServer, then only start your skype. Just my 2 sents.

Answer 2

I changed the WAMP PHP version from 5.6 to 7.04 and it worked like a charm. Give it a shot!

Go to > Notification Area > Wamp Icon > PHP > Versions

Answer 3

Not only skype will cause the problem, all other software that using port 80 will cause the same problem such as anti-virus, online movie player... if you want to know how to check which software is using port 80, and how to delete it. Please follow the 7 steps that shown on my blog : http://ye5.blogspot.com/2011/01/wamp-server-localhost-shows-blank-page.html

Answer 4

Okay so looking at both responses here and elsewhere, many people have been saying to quit skype or whichever process is running port 80. I used this link http://ye5.blogspot.com/2011/01/wamp-server-localhost-shows-blank-page.html as provided by zac1987 to locate what was interfering via port 80.

However, many people still complained that locating and quitting the program taking up port 80 didn't work straight away. In my case I just had to wait a minute or two for all of the Skype processes to close themselves and then I restarted WAMP Server and it is now working fine.

Hope this helps somebody :)

Answer 5

I had to use system recover at the end and the problem was at the skype, i tried to uncheck the "use port 80" box under skypes options but the only way to do it properly is to recover ur pc at an earlier date.

Mind you becareful and make a copy of your data first

Answer 6

Enable error reporting in the configuration so that you can see why.