how to use wamp server phpmyadmin refused to connect

#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER PHPMYADMIN REFUSED TO CONNECT INSTALL#
#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER PHPMYADMIN REFUSED TO CONNECT SOFTWARE#
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#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER PHPMYADMIN REFUSED TO CONNECT WINDOWS 8#

When we install Windows 8, IIS 8 is also installed with it and unfortunately it automatically runs at the startu p. In Windows 8, by default, IIS 8 Server uses this port. Screen displaying information about Port 80īy doing this, you'll get to know which service (if any) is using Port 80. When you'll click on the Test Port 80 option, you'll see a cmd line screen that will display the name of the service that is using Port 80. Left click on the WAMP Server system tray icon, then goto Apache > Service > Test port 80. But then I came across a blog where someone had posted a solution for this, which I thought I should share with others as well.

#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER PHPMYADMIN REFUSED TO CONNECT WINDOWS 8#

On Windows 8 however, I wasn't able to find any solution to this problem.

#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER PHPMYADMIN REFUSED TO CONNECT SOFTWARE#

When I was using Windows 7, I found out that this only happens whenever some other service or software is using our computer's Port 80 (HTTP port) and mostly it was Skype because of which I wasn't able to run WAMP properly. WAMP Server's Orange Icon not turning Green

Rather than that, it got stuck as an orange icon. The problem I encountered was that WAMP's icon wasn't becoming green. But it was until I tried to open WAMP Sever on my machine.

#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER PHPMYADMIN REFUSED TO CONNECT PC#

Older Version of this post (Just a hack) I've recently started using Windows 8 on my PC and was very happy because of its great new look and feel. I would love to see your comments about this update. Well I hope that this method will work for all of you guys because this time we've actually handled this problem the right way. As for the phpmyadmin, don't worry, just type localhost/phpmyadmin and yes it works too. Click on it and Notepad will run as an administrator.Īfter restarting WAMP, open your browser of choice and type localhost. And there you go.

After you see the Notepad application icon, right-click on it and you'll see some options at the bottom of the screen.

In this case we want to search for Notepad To do this in Windows 8, press the Window Key + W to open the Search app or alternatively, press the Window Key and directly type your search term. Open Notepad again, but this time as an administrator, and open the hosts file.Then type the following text on the next line - Listen 0.0.0.0:80. Save and close this file and close Notepad. After you find this text, just add a # (hash symbol) at the start of this line to comment/or make it inactive. After you've opened the httpd file in Notepad, press Ctrl + F or goto Edit > Find and search for Listen 80 text.Right-click on this file and open it with Notepad.

Goto the WAMP folder (in my case, I've installed it in my E drive) > inside it double click the bin folder > then apache > apache2.2.22 (or whatever version you have) > conf > inside this folder, you'll see a file named httpd which has a file type of CONF.

Here's what you should actually be doing. Although my older post might have solved your problem, it isn't a proper solution. So in order to properly tackle this problem, there's no need to follow the steps I mentioned in my earlier post. You'll receive a reply from ::1 which is the loopback address for IPV6. Open the command prompt and type ping localhost and press the Enter key. This creates a conflict and hence we face this problem. The thing is that Windows 8 is an IPV6-first Operating System and WAMP is, by default, configured to run with IPV4 only. After a long time, I've finally managed to find out the actual reason for this problem, which I want to share with all of you. Updated - 14th April 2013: (Solved) As you might know that the post I made previously was just a way to get around this strange problem.

How to use wamp server phpmyadmin refused to connect