A Fix For Internet Explorer Crashing WAMP

August 12, 2013

I’ve still got some “legacy” client sites that run on WAMP on my local machine. I was trying to do some updates to some of their sites and when I started doing some testing on Internet Exploder…oops I mean Explorer of course, and WAMP was locking up and it was really starting to bug me.

It turns out the fix is fairly obscure so I thought I’d blog about it in case others have the same issue. So the fix is to open up Apache’s httpd.conf file which you can get to easily in WAMP by Left clicking on WAMP -> Apache -> httpd.conf and adding in the following lines:

# Fix IE crashing Apache
 AcceptFilter http none
 AcceptFilter https none

Restart WAMP and everything should be peachy again!

Bronson Quick

Joshua Brian Davis

Thanks a ton. This was killing me having to restart the server constantly when browser testing.

Reply September 10, 2013
- Bronson Quick
  
  You’re welcome Joshua! It was killing me as well 🙂
  
  Reply September 10, 2013
porcodiocanemaialeschifoso

thanks, that was really helpfull.
I was having the same issue with ie

Reply November 15, 2013
Amandilh

Works very well but causes problems with https requests from Chrome or Firefox (so I only implemented it for http).

Reply November 18, 2013
James

I’ve seen this problem and found the fix in another post.

http://forum.wampserver.com/read.php?2,91207,page=2

If anyone know’s why this resolves the problem, or indeed what the actual problem is I would be interested to know!

Reply November 19, 2013
Adam

thank you!
you saved my brain from exploring… I mean exploding

Reply June 24, 2014
- Bronson Quick
  
  Haha! I’m glad that helped you Adam 🙂
  
  Reply June 24, 2014
madvic

Thanks a lot !!

Reply January 30, 2015

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