WampServer

Hello.

Firstly, thanks a million for Wampserver, it's great.

But I think my install of the Nusphere debugger has broken it.

Wampserver was running fine and I ran the Nusphere dbg-wizard.php to show me where to set up the PHP 5.25 debugger. This I followed and by 'restarting' the wampserver services everything then seemed fine.

But since I have shut down and restarted the machine I now cannot start Wampserver. I get an error message that says -

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The configuration file contains a syntax error on line 915:
[EParseError] Invalid section tag

Looking at wampmanager.ini, I see that it refers to php_ext_php_dbg.dll-5.2.x, the debugger extension loaded for Nusphere PhpED and the syntax error is caused by an inserted 'return'

I.e. at line 915:
[php_ext_php_dbg.dll-5.2.x
]
Action: service; Service: wampapache; ServiceAction: stop; Flags: waituntilterminated
Action: run; FileName: "d:/wamp/bin/php/php5.2.5/php-win.exe";Parameters: "-c . switchPhpExt.php php_dbg.dll-5.2.x
off";WorkingDir: "d:/wamp/scripts"; Flags: waituntilterminated
Action: run; FileName: "d:/wamp/bin/php/php5.2.5/php-win.exe";Parameters: "-c . refresh.php";WorkingDir: "d:/wamp/scripts"; Flags: waituntilterminated
Action: run; FileName: "net"; Parameters: "start wampapache"; ShowCmd: hidden; Flags: waituntilterminated
Action: resetservices;
Action: readconfig;

If I remove the return e.g. [php_ext_php_dbg.dll-5.2.x] and save it I get another error at line 671 about a closing quote. This is also caused by an inserted 'Return'. If I edit this and save it, starting WampServer returns to the original error at 915.

I'm going around in circles.

Can anyone help please?

P.s. It's running on Vista Home Premium

I had the same problem. I believe it's the strangely-named dll that's confusing wamp server. I fixed the problem by renaming the dll so it ended in .dll.

Here are the steps I took:

1. In c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.5\ext, rename php_dbg.dll.5.2.x to php_dbg_52x.dll.
2. In c:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.8\bin\php.ini, change the line extension=php_dbg.dll.5.2.x likewise to the new name (extension=php_dbg_52x.dll)
3. In c:\wamp\wampmanager.ini, search for all instances of "5.2.x" and delete the entire sections (I found two such sections).

Run wamp server again.


Nate

Did you try turning it off and turning it back on again.


Love Sunny xxx

Yes Sunny, I tried restarting but that did not work.

As long as that dll is referenced with its non-standard name in the php.ini file, the error appears. Wamp parses the php.ini file every time it is run in order to populate the list of extensions that can be enabled or disabled through the tray icon. It looks for lines beginning with "extension=" and from them generates the wampmanager.ini file, which is used by the tray icon application. Because this particular extension doesn't end in .dll like all the others, that appears to be messing up the parsing algorithm.

Easy workaround though, as I described.

Nate

Hooray..

That's solved it, now it's all working fine again. By the way, I found three instances in wampmanager.ini.
I'll forward this all onto Nusphere and see if they'll stop using their wierd naming system.

Thanks for all your help.

Russ.