You would see “Use a port other than 80.” I right-clicked the WAMP icon > Tools > Use a port other than 80 The image says 8080 because I had already changed it in this screenshot. phpMyAdmin wasn’t starting.Īfter a few more digging I finally resolved it for good and it was even easier. Voila! The icon turned green and I was good to go.Īlthough this fixed the icon turning it green from orange.

Once I did this, I saved the file and started the Apache service again. I opened it up and simply edited it to replace all instances of port 80 to 8080, I found a total of 4 instances. So to solve it I went to the WAMP icon, under Apache you will find the nf file link. Port 80 was in use, it’s known to be a regular issue with these installations. So after spending some time searching for the issue. So right there I knew being unable to run Apache was the culprit. Now it said 2 of 3 services running while the icon remained at orange.įinally, I tried to turn on Apache and I got the following black screen: Your port 80 is actually used by :Ĭannot install the Apache service, please stop this application and try again. Then I did the same thing with MySQL > Service Administration submenu > Start/Resume Service. I then hovered over the WAMP system tray icon, it said 1 of 3 services running turning the icon from red to orange. Then, I started to enable one by one starting with MariaDB > Service Administration submenu > Start/Resume Service. But how did I find out which services were running and which were not?

I noticed in my case only two of three services were running: MariaDB and MySQL. There are three main services required to run WAMP successfully on your local machine: Orange means it’s partially running, and a green icon means it’s completely running. Just in case you don’t know, a red icon means it’s not running at all.

Upon installation, and once I ran WAMP for the first time, I immediately got the orange icon, which means WAMP is not fully running. Here’s how I fixed it fast.ĭoing a search online will send you into a bunch of different places, but let me tell you first about the problem I had and then the solution to fix it. If you’re about to start WordPress development on your local machine using WAMP, you might run across the same issue I had: The WAMP system tray icon was orange, and hovering over it displayed only 2 out of 3 services running.

Wamp server apache service not starting