Wamp Virtual Host Set Up

Question

sorry for having a similar question to what has been posted all ready but the others aren't helping me. I'm trying to set up a virtual host on my windows 8 computer but I can't seem to get it to work no matter what tutorial or help section i follow, this is my setup so far.

httpd-vhosts.conf

# Virtual Hosts
#
# Required modules: mod_log_config

Listen 80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files (x86)\2. Apps\Wamp\www"
    ServerName localhost
    <Directory "C:/wamp/www">
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot "C:\Users\Chris\Documents\Projects\testsite\Site"
    ServerName testingsite
    ServerAlias testingsite
    <directory "C:\Users\Chris\Documents\Projects\testsite\Site">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
    </directory>
</VirtualHost>

hosts

# Wamp Server Settings
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       testingsite

httpd.conf

# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

If i try to start wamp the icon goes orange. If i run httpd.exe from command prompt i get the following error:

C:\Program Files (x86)\2. Apps\Wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.2\bin>httpd.exe
(OS 10048)Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port)
is normally permitted.  : AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(OS 10048)Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port)
is normally permitted.  : AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:
80
AH00451: no listening sockets available, shutting down
AH00015: Unable to open logs

I read that another program might be blocking it or my firewall but i don't know how to fix it, any ideas?

Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks for everyone's input, there were two main problems

I installed wamp into a folder which was nested in a folder who's name had a space in so c:/folder/folder with a space/wamp/ which i have since been told is bad practice, if anyone knows why please tell.

The were issues with the internet protocol, namely ipv6, so solve this you need to ensure wamp only uses ipv4, inside httpd.conf find Listen 80 and change to Listen 0.0.0.0:80. Again i'm not sure what this does so if anyone knows please post below.

I hope this helps anyone else stuck.