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Does anyone know why I get this?: Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to localhost:8800

I am trying to use DokuWiki for the first time. It uses MicroApache. When I start it I get the error message. If I try to manually go to "http://localhost:8800" I get the same. I can however ping it from a cmd prompt

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

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    What's the output to "netstat -n | findstr 8800" ?
    – flashnode
    May 22, 2012 at 18:46
  • Is that the exact syntax? When I run it it simply goes back to the command prompt.
    – Ian
    May 22, 2012 at 19:07
  • Sorry that was what I meant. I have tried netstat see above comment. Bram, you haven't answered the question.
    – Ian
    May 23, 2012 at 12:21
  • If you get no output it proves that no process is listening on that port. Thus MicroApache isn't running. Check whatever documentation you used to install this (perhaps post the link to it so others can verify it). Also add the output of the go.bat. Perhaps you close the command window after running it? If you run the telnet command I suggested you will most likely receive an error as well, again showing that you haven't actually started anything successfully. Another thing you should do is to check the MicroApache and DokuWiki documentation where the logfiles are written and check those.
    – Bram
    May 23, 2012 at 18:03

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The MicroApache service isn't started. You can't "ping" a port the ping reply is from the "localhost" part. You need to check the port either with netstat as @flashnode suggested or by telnet localhost 8800.

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  • telnet localhost 8800 gives ...could not connect to the host on 8800:connect failed
    – Ian
    May 23, 2012 at 12:25
  • exactly, because the service isn't started. You will need to find out how to start the service before it will bind to port 8800. You will either have to check Windows service manager (or whatever it's called) or look for some kind of .bat file that will start the MicroApache instance.
    – Bram
    May 23, 2012 at 13:18
  • In a command prompt cd to the directory that you installed MicroApache in (for example "cd \Program Files\MicroApache-2.0.63"). Then type go.bat. If this batch file returns errors edit your question and include them. If it does not return errors then the netstat command should show some output and you can use Chrome to connect to port 8800.
    – flashnode
    May 23, 2012 at 13:36
  • There isn't a go.bat but there is a start.cmd which runs microapache. I have been using this cmd file from the start and though when running this there are no errors reported it runs localhost:8800 which is when I get the error in the browser. Running nstat is as in the comment above
    – Ian
    May 23, 2012 at 16:22

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