1) I have installed 32 bit version wamp 2.2E, on windows XP 32bit. The icon is currently orange. I do not have skype.
2)The windows hosts file does have the line:
127.0.0.1 localhost
3a) Trying to enter //127.0.0.1/ in the browser results in error:
“Navigation to the webpage cancelled”
3b) or //localhost/ results in error:
“Access denied”
4)Apache and PHP error logs are empty even after restarting services.
5) restarted under services.msc the service “wampmysqld”, doesn’t help
6) stopping first then restarting all services doesn’t help [I should add the icon has never been green from the first installation of wamp has been going to orange]
Problem solved:
I downloaded the older version wampserver 2.1e – and bam, it works.
Note: during the installation process, the windows firewall popped up and asked me if I wanted to continue to block certain elements from apache http, I chose unblock, and bam it works! Now I wonder if that was the problem with 2.2e, if I needed to go into the firewall and something is blocking apache.