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How to fix localhost refused to connect on Windows 10 Wamp server and Xampp? – Apache

I’ve installed WAMP Server on Windows 10 and it was working fine. But when I try to load localhost today it gives me refused to connect error. I’ve read some questions on Stack Overflow and tried their answers but no luck.

  • Re-installed wamp (also tried xampp. non of these work)
  • IIS is off
  • Web Development.. thing in services is not running.
  • Tried netstat -aon and port 80 PID is same as wampapache64 process.
  • changed listening port to 81 in httpd.conf in wamp => apache =>
  • Cleared browser cache
  • Wamp icon is green
  • Can’t connect using 127.0.0.1

Nothing works.

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PID is 7724

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  1. 0
    • I will assume the wamp icon in the system tray is green. I think you should start tracing the root cause from the apache error/access log.
    • Try change the http port to 8080 and access localhost:8080. left click the wamp icon in the taskbar, go to apache > httpd.conf and edit this file: change “listen to port .. 80” to 8080.

    • Try the hosts file with only the initial records and test.

      127.0.0.1 localhost
      ::1 localhost

    • If you are facing the error from the apache errors log file

    (OS 10038)An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. : AH00332: winnt_accept: getsockname error on listening socket, is IPv6 available?

    then do the following:
    * Run ‘command prompt’ as administrator and run the command netsh winsock reset . and restart the PC.

    • Skype default port is 80 and this might be having a conflict .. try to change it from Skype options.
    • Finally make sure the antivirus or any firewall you are having is not blocking your application requests.
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    firstly, uninstall wampp as well as xampp server from your PC. Also delete the wampp/xampp folders in C drive.

    then install wampserver 2.0i from the link below-
    wampserver 2.0i

    after installation, start wamppserver and try to open localhost in chrome browser.
    if localhost doesnt work, then try localhost:80
    hope it helps!!

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