WAMP services not running.. (1 reply)

I have had WAMPserver 2.5 running on a Win 7 machine now for many years, running a small repair fault database that is shared and accessed across a network by a team of engineers, however it has recently stopped working and I really need to get it fixed.

The error I get is:

Warning: mysqli::mysqli(): (HY000/2002): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. in C:\wamp\www\include\class.db.php on line 41



The problem lies (I think) is that the Wamp icon is amber, and not green.

I have checked that port 80 is free, when I check it shows that Apache is correctly using it...
Your Port 80 is actually used by:
Server Apache/2.4.9 (win64) PHP/5.5.12
Cannot install the Apache Service, please stop the service and start again

I have tried to install the service & restart
I don't have Skype on the machine

When I open Windows services to check what is running...

WAMPAPACHE64 - Started - Manual
WAMPMYSQLD64 - - Automatic

If I try and restart the WAMPMYSQLD64 service and then check the logs it shows these 4 errors:


Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed
Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
Aborting

There are no other Apache services running, IIS isn't installed, nothing really ever gets changed or used on the machine it runs on, it pretty well sits idle most of the time, just serving this database to us. Defender and Firewall is currently turned off.

We haven't updated any WAMP server settings or programs



- its really important I get it working somehow as it contains a lot of valuable data so any help would be appreciated!