Wamp and xampp on same machine

Question

I use wamp2.2 for all the time, but i had to install xamp1.6.8 cause i've got to work with project created for old php version. Xamp installation goes fine but when i run it i cant get localhost site. Ive got blank page with favicon of wamp and comunicate that site is unavaible. I know that this is configuration case. Anybody know how to fix this?

I want to run only one of them at once, and i have configured some virtualhosts for wamp they dont have to be accesible while xamp is running i need xamp only for one project.

Answer 1

for run xampp and wamp in same computer you can use this tutorial from arasjoomla website: http://arasjoomla.ir/joomla-tutorial/how-to-run-xampp-and-wamp-on-same-computer for example we used wamp with default port and setting and set changed in xampp:

1. Change xampp apache port 80 to example 8080 in httpd.conf from directory C:\xampp\apache\conf
2. In my.ini from C:\xampp\mysql\bin change port=3306 to port=3307

3. In config.inc.php from C:\xampp\phpMyAdmin after this code:

   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;

   add this code:

   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3307';

4. restart xampp now we cab use xampp and wamp for example use this code in xampp port 3307 for connection database:

   $servername = "localhost";
   $username = "root";
   $password = "";
   $dbname = "my_db";
   $port = '3307';
   
   $conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname,$port);
   if (!$conn) {
   die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
   }
   
   $sql = "SELECT id, name FROM users";
   $result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
   
   if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {
      while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
       echo "id: " . $row["id"]. " - Name: " . $row["name"]. "<br>";
      }
    } else 
        echo "0 results";
   
   mysqli_close($conn);
   

Answer 2

WAMP and XAMPP are basically the same thing i.e. Apache MySQL and PHP so if one is running it's Apache will have captured port 80, so the second one wont be able to get to port 80, ditto one's MySQL server will have captured port 3306 so the others wont run.

Why do you need to install XAMPP to get an old version of PHP running, WAMPServer is designed to allow you to switch between multiple versions of Apache/MySQL and PHP fairly easily.

But now you have done it, just make sure that the Apache and MySQL services from XAMPP are set to start manually and also Wampservers [wampapache] and [wampmysqld] services as well. then just run only one of them at any one time.