Using WAMP for years, was running a recent version 3.2.x < 3.2.6
Tried running the addon for PHP8.0
was instructed to upgrade to later version of wamp
ran upgrader to 3.2.9 (how can the "latest version" be 3.2.6 but there is an "upgrader" to 3.2.9???
ran PHP8.0 addon.
Nothing changed.
Ran check_vcredist got told to upgrade stuff
upgraded Microsoft stuff, reboot Windows, no upgrades are visible
re-run upgrades, get told PHP8 is already installed but (a) wamp is still showing 3.2.x < 6 and (b) php8 is not offered.
spent a couple of hours trying things, now have uninstalled WAMP.
If the problem was caused by running addons and updaters without first upgrading vcr then maybe the updaters and addons could check this first? No instruction is given about this and I have run updaters in the past with no issues.
Uninstalled WaMP and start again. Took backups of httpd.conf httpd-vhosts.conf php.ini my.ini and diffed these after the new install to get back my local settings.
Pulled source code from cloud, run composer, run npm, pull databases from cloud.
That was a day I'll never get back.
Tried running the addon for PHP8.0
was instructed to upgrade to later version of wamp
ran upgrader to 3.2.9 (how can the "latest version" be 3.2.6 but there is an "upgrader" to 3.2.9???
ran PHP8.0 addon.
Nothing changed.
Ran check_vcredist got told to upgrade stuff
upgraded Microsoft stuff, reboot Windows, no upgrades are visible
re-run upgrades, get told PHP8 is already installed but (a) wamp is still showing 3.2.x < 6 and (b) php8 is not offered.
spent a couple of hours trying things, now have uninstalled WAMP.
If the problem was caused by running addons and updaters without first upgrading vcr then maybe the updaters and addons could check this first? No instruction is given about this and I have run updaters in the past with no issues.
Uninstalled WaMP and start again. Took backups of httpd.conf httpd-vhosts.conf php.ini my.ini and diffed these after the new install to get back my local settings.
Pulled source code from cloud, run composer, run npm, pull databases from cloud.
That was a day I'll never get back.