Corrupt Wampserver - how to recover?

Question

My laptop crashed this morning after which the wampmanager.ini was corrupted. I found out how to resolve that by pasting in a replacement and ensuring that this line pointed to the correct directories:

Action: run; FileName: “c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.4.3/php-win.exe”;Parameters: “refresh.php”;WorkingDir: “c:/wamp/scripts”; Flags: waituntilterminated

However, I still get an error "Exception Eception in module wampmanager.exe at 000F15A0. Could not execute run action: The directory name is invalid.

I have check: “c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.4.3/php-win.exe” and “c:/wamp/scripts”. I even pasted them into the address line at the top of the page to make sure and they were found.

What are my options please?

Can I run a repair? Is it just quicker to reinstall? If I reinstall which directories do I need to copy in order to save my database?

I do not know much about this so if you can be specific please that would be very much appreciated (e.g., full file paths where possible).

Thanks,

Glyn

I have found this: http://forum.wampserver.com/read.php?2,71125,printview,page=1

https://superuser.com/questions/373255/wamp-not-working-on-windows-7-64bit

Now I need to work out whether I am using WampServer 32 bit or 64 bit. How do I do this please?

Answer 1

You are nearly there, wampmanager.ini is recreated every time you run wamp. What you actually need is an uncorrupted wampmanager.tpl.

If you have a backup, replace the wampmanager.tpl file in \wamp

SECOND ANSWER:

You could try this.

Rename the old wamp folder.

Install WAMP again, using the same version of wamp Apache,MySQL.

Copy your database's from old location to new location + any website code.

That should get you back to where you were roughly.

Answer 2

In my case it happenned because I moved by mistake folder "scripts" from "C:\wamp" to "C:\wamp\tmp". I put it back and it works now. I found this soltion looking in "wampmanager.ini" (section [StartupAction]) the directories expected to find, and I saw that "scripts" was missing.