I'm trying to install Joomla to get my website up and running, but its giving me some trouble.

First I installed wampserver so I could run Joomla on that, but when I am running wampserver (and it's fully connected) and I open any browser and try and go to my localhost it either times out or says it cannot display the webpage. This is occuring on both FIREFOX and IE.

Can anyone help me? I'm lost on the whole Joomla installation, but once I've got it installed I'm confident that I'll be able to get into it.

The step-by-step guide I'm using to install Joomla is below, and as you can see I didn't get too far before I ran into the localhost problem.

http://www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/120-how-to-install-joomla-15.html

Thanks so much for any help you can give me.

(And no, I'm not running skype which I KNOW runs on the same port as wampserver)Is Wamp installed correctly?
Have you installed Joomla on the server correctly?
Have you PUT Joomla in the www or htdocs folder?Just try it with your firewall temporarily disabled...The firewall wouldn't affect localhost would it? It shouldn't by default anyway.Since the OP hasn't told us what firewall is installed or how it's configured, we cannot make that assumption.  We also don't know if the OP is attempting to connect via the loopback or via the NIC - depends on how host file is configured.  So many questions!  It's just easier to ask for the firewall to be disabled temporarily.  I installed the WAMP several times... But i dont encountered any problems at all...If "http://localhost" give you an error, it is most likely the VISTA host file error. Open notepad as an administrator, file:open C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc\hosts "Hosts" is the file.

You'll see at the bottom this entry:"  ::1             localhost    "

Just above it you'll need to add:  "127.0.0.1   localhost"


I have no idea why Vista uses ::1, but many programs don't know what it MEANS. That should fix the problem, I did that, and now Apache works for me.