Apache won't start in MAMP on PC

Question

I'm using MAMP on Win 8.1. It has been working fine. But today I opened it up and it threw an error "Could not wait for starting of Apache child." It was MAMP 3.0.1. I then tried uninstall and re-install it as is mentioned in MAMP error: couldn't be started . The new version is MAMP 3.0.4. But instead of throwing errors, it simply stuck at the starting window with the green bar scrolling forever...

Other posts I could find about this problem are mostly MAC versions, and I can't find any file named "envvars".

However, on both MAMP 3.0.1 and 3.0.4, if I switch the version of PHP in "Preferences->PHP->Standard Version" to anything other than 5.6.7, it worked. Is it that the windows version of MAMP still doesn't support PHP 5.6.7? But it worked fine before today...

Answer 1

Have you checked the logs in \\MAMP\\logs ?

Also which maybe ins't your problem. I upgraded to the latest MAMP (3.2.1) yesterday on my Windows 7 Pro computer and suddenly the Apache and MySQL server would not start anymore. MAMP would execute though. After some debugging I installed the latest MS .Net Framework 4.6 and everything worked fine.