XAMPP Apache - Error Apache shutdown unexpectedly

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I ve just re-installed XAMPP  and when I try to start my Apache server in the XAMPP Control Panel  I now get the following errors   16 50 25   Apache      Status change detected  running 16 50 26   Apache      Status change detected  stopped 16 50 26   Apache      Error  Apache shutdown unexpectedly  16 50 26   Apache      This may be due to a blocked port  missing dependencies  16 50 26   Apache      improper privileges  a crash  or a shutdown by another method  16 50 26   Apache      Press the Logs button to view error logs and check 16 50 26   Apache      the Windows Event Viewer for more clues 16 50 26   Apache      If you need more help  copy and post this 16 50 26   Apache      entire log window on the forums   How do I solve this

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This happend due to default port 80 is blocked for Apache. You need to change the port or make the port accesible.

Go to your Apache configuration (httpd.conf) file in the Apache installation.

Find these lines:

#

Listen 192.168.1.2:80

Listen 80

#

Here 192.168.1.2 is my private IP address. Change it according to yours.

Change as below

Listen 192.168.1.2:8081

Listen 8081

Now when you access localhost you have to add the port explicitily as http://localhost:8081/...

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In XAMPP Control Panel V3 2 1  click on  NetStat  button on top right  Make sure port 80 is not used by any other program  Then click on  Shell  Right below it  Issue this command  Type ap then TAB two times      Apache Start bat   You will actually see the exact error why Apache failed  It will be mostly likely virtual host configuration issue or may be something else  It will display the line number on which the error is occurring  Just fix that error  Note that in RootDocument a trailing   can be a source of error as well  Remove any trailing

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Open Skype    Tools -  Options -  Advanced -  Connection    Uncheck the  Use port 80 and 443 for alternatives for incoming connections  checkbox  Sign Out and Close all Skype windows  Try restarting your Apache

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I had the same problem  on Windows nbsp 8 1   but I fixed it just by extracting to C   instead of C  somefolder as I did at first  So the path to the control panel  for example  is now C  xampp xampp-control exe

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i also got the same error and i was uninstall vmware to fix that error

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Most probably you have another running  mysqld  process kill it then rerun xampp MySQL you don t get any error

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Best Solution for windows user is     Open netstat  from XAMPP CONTROL PANEL  Find PID of process which uses port 80  Open CMD with Administrative  Run taskkill  pid PID  instead PID use pid u found from netstat  Heyy enjoy u Done

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For me  world wide web publishing-service was using port 80  I killed this by running the following command on cmd   net stop http   After that  XAMPP ran Apache without any problems

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Trick that works for me is   Starting XAMPP as administrator  I tried changing ports using httpd config and httpd-ssl config  It ended my saving it in  txt file  Also used config on the right top  None worked I am using VMworkstation

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One of the causes could be that you are not running the XAMPP Control Panel as an administrator

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For me  this problem began when I hosted a VPN-connection on my Windows 8 computer   Simply deleting the connection from  Control Panel Network and Internet Network Connections  solved the problem

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Ok for my case it was really simple  I set to a local IP address at my Ethernet port  Then having this error  Turns out I did not connect the cable to it  so the IP does not resolve to the IP set in Apache  Solution was to connect the cable to a switch or router  Then able to start Apache

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Alright  no port 80  no Skype blame  My problem was indeed quite simple  amp silly    I had an extra backslash      on Windows  after the path I d specified for the DocumentRoot directive  so I made a change like this and the problem is gone like a duck soup   My index php was in the path  D  websites dummy  and my httpd conf was like this    lt VirtualHost 127 0 0 2 80 gt  ServerName dummy local DocumentRoot  D  websites dummy    mistake here  lt  VirtualHost gt   lt Directory  D  websites dummy   gt   mistake here     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt    So just change those two lines like this    first mistake fix  DocumentRoot  D  websites dummy   second  similar  mistake fix   lt Directory  D  websites dummy  gt       and everything s fine now  To prevent such mistakes in future  always copy the path of any folder you want to refer to instead of typing it yourself

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Installing the latest 5 6 12 from 5 6 8 on Windows 8 1 worked for me

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This worked for me     If you are using windows     Search  cmd  in the windows search bar    Enter this C  xampp apache bin httpd exe  Find which file and which line the error occurred    For example  mine was in the file below on line 37      httpd-multilang-errordoc conf   Open the code and fix the error by either removing the line or fixing it    Done  I should work now

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I received the same error above and what caused it for me was that in the file  httpd-vhosts conf  I put a comment inside the  lt Directory gt  tags like this      lt Directory   PATH TO MY FOLDER      gt          AllowOverride All         Require all Granted       This directive could should be set to denied   lt  Directory gt    Once I removed the comment  Apache started  I guess I should have put the comment on its own line  I just thought  like other web code  it could be there

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First of all you should verify that you have no excess virtual hosts in your httpd-vhosts file  I mean following simple rule  1 project   1 virtual host in config file  Otherwise you ll face with error even if you ll change ports etc

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Even i had this issue and i resolved it  in my case it was different   first i tried uninstalling the skype but that didn t work  but in my windows 10 desktop  i had the IIS Internet Information Server  installed by default which was pointing to port 80    All i did is i changed the port number to 8081 and just restarted XAMPP  and that worked for me   however i was not using IIS   here is the link to https   support microsoft com en-in help 149605 how-to-change-the-tcp-port-for-iis-services

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In my case  this issue was caused by an attempt to download other product of bitnami  like WordPress  That s common when we install WordPress via XAMPP  It is placed in the xampp app directory that can be accessed from the XAMPP application homepage   As a solution  I removed the default installed WordPress from the xampp directory and manually installed WordPress in the htdocs folder of WordPress by downloading it and extracting zip files into the htdoc folder  You also need to restart XAMPP or may system after uninstalling removing the default WordPress  All is OK for me now

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I had the exact same error message as the OP  but my problem was not addressed by any of the existing answers   Many of the answers deal with conflicts on port 80  which I knew I did not have  since I had had localhost responding on port 80 very recently   Turns out I had inadvertently changed ServerRoot when I intended to change DocumentRoot  stupid  I know   and though the new ServerRoot directory existed  it did not contain the configuration files and other stuff apache needed  which caused it to fail on startup   The error message probably addresses this scenario by the wording  missing dependencies    On my Windows system  setting ServerRoot back to C  XAMPP apache solved the problem

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In my case  I got this problem coz Bitnami Wordpress was active   Open the Bitanami App Go to Manage Servers Make Sure to stop MySql and Apache Restart xampp and it will work

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When I found that there was no process using port 80 by using commands  netstat -abno   find   80    there was not a problem of any process using port 80   Then I ran command  in cmd   C  xampp apache bin httpd exe   it showed some error in the virtual hosts configuration in httpd-vhosts conf file which was recently edited by me for installation in a WordPress PHP environment in the Eclipse IDE  So I deleted those lines and Apache started perfectly

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My problem was that in httpd conf the DocumentRoot and  lt Directory gt  entries were pointing to non-existing folders   For example  the  original  httpd conf had the following entries   DocumentRoot  c  Apache24 htdocs   lt Directory  c  Apache24 htdocs  gt    If you ve installed in C  xampp then you need to change those entries to match  i e   DocumentRoot  c  xampp htdocs   lt Directory  c  xampp htdocs  gt

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This error occurs because the port  which is allocated for Apache  is used by another program  To check the application which uses the port  which we allocated for Apache  it can be had by clicking   Netstat button     This is the Netstat file     At first  I have allocated port 8080 for Apache  and I recently installed Oracle DB TNSLSNR exe has used 8080 port now   So  by looking at this file we can choose a port which is not clashing with other applications  In my case  port 8060 is not clashing with any application  By selecting that we can change the httpd conf file  XAMPP control panel -  Config  as mentioned above

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Same error  Turns out I had the wrong version of zend xdebug extension loaded  The xdebug wizard said to use the TS  Thread Safe  version  i e  withOUT -NTS-   but apparently I downloaded the incorrect NonThread Safe version   Even though I had the path and file name accurate in the php ini file  I was still getting the error   When I downloaded the different version  and updated php ini again  everything worked well   php xdebug-2 7 0-7 3-vc15-nts-x86 64 dll gave me an error  but no error with php xdebug-2 7 0-7 3-vc15-x86 64 dll

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Try the following  none of the above solved it for me   Select  quot Run as administrator quot     Then click on the big left box next to Apache   And Choose to uninstall Apache    I have no idea why this worked but it solved my problem directly

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As I am working in a corporate environment where developers faces firewall issues  none of the other answers resolved my issue   As the port is not used by Skype  but by some other internal applications  I followed the below steps to resolve the issue   Step 1 - From the XAMPP Control Panel  under Apache  click the Config button  and select the Apache  httpd conf    Inside the httpd conf file  somehow I found a line that says   Listen 80   And change the 80 into any number   port you want  In my scenario I   m using port 8080   Listen 8080   Still from the httpd conf file  I found another line that says   ServerName localhost 80   Change 80 to 8080   ServerName localhost 8080   Step 2 -  From the XAMPP Control Panel  under Apache  click the Config button again  but this time select the Apache  httpd-ssl conf   Inside the httpd-ssl conf file  find line that says  Listen 443   And change the 443 into any number   port you want  I   ll using 4433 as the new port number   Listen 4433   Still from the httpd-ssl conf file  find another line that says   lt VirtualHost  default  443 gt   ServerName localhost 443   And change 443 to 4433    lt VirtualHost  default  4433 gt   ServerName localhost 4433   Remember to save the httpd conf and httpd-ssl conf files after performing some changes  Then restart the Apache service

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It seems that no one has answered about executing xampp start exe   I did all the previous answers but it did not fixed my issue  I found out that running xampp start exe will give you a detailed info about the issue   This is what I see on my end     As you can see I was having a path issue or xampp is pointing to non-existing folder

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In my case it was much easier  I turned off the native windows firewall  Then re-loaded  comp launched xampp and started apache again  Then turned the firewall on back

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I had the same problem sometime back  I had a old laptop  on which almost all the ports were either blocked or were malfunctioning  This is how I did it     Open the XAMPP control panel  Click on Config Then  go into Apache httpd conf file  Open it with a text editor  Search for  80    Do Ctrl   F and find all of them  Replace it with 8080 or 4040 or 4000    Save the file  And restart XAMPP     It worked well for me  and I hope it helps you too

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I solved the problem with stopping the service  Web Deployment Agent Service   Open  System -  Computer Management -  Services -  Web Deployment Agent Service  Stop this service and starting XAMPP works  I think this is a service by MS Webmatrix    German  Systemsteuerung -  System und Sicherheit -  Verwaltung -  Dienste -  Webbereitstellungs-Agent-Dienst

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download new xampp apachefriends  install it remove all VPN app open folder XAMPP  run setup xampp bat run xampp-control exe

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The solution is uninstall the xampp and reinstall it  it will be work

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You can run apache start bat file from XAMPP directory for see details about your error details

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I tried to execute httpd exe in cmd and got error that there s syntax error in httpd-vhosts conf   I checked file and found what s wrong and it s working fine now    So  if you are facing this error then it may be because of httpd-vhosts or any other file    Try to execute the program via cmd and you will get the error details and the line where is syntax error    Best of luck

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If you re using Windows 7   Search for IIS in Windows search  Click the Window icon in left bottom and type in where it says  Search program and files      Open IIS  Internet Information Service     In the right side in actions panel  Click Stop   Note  The stop link is faded in screen shot  As I ve stopped it   Problem Solved

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I have just encountered this error on my xampp v3 2 2  win 10 pro x64     I first tried to run the  net stop http  command in an admin cmd  but it didnt solve the issue  so I went ahead to try the  netstat -abno  command and i found out that the ssl port 443  was in use by vmware   so my advice  don t just look for what s blocking port 80  also look for potential programs using port 443  because I really don t like changing my default port numbers to 8081 and 4433   So this is how you can solve this issue     firstly type the following command   net stop http   then try to start apache  if it still doesn t work  type out the following command   netstat -abno   and you ll definitely get that troublesome app that s using up your precious port    copy the pid and then use the following command  taskkill  f  pid PID  where PID is the pid you copied   Hopefully this helps someone

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If changing the port didn t solve the problem as suggested above  and if you had probably played around with the file directory structure  for instance  change the name of the folder after installation like I did  then you can try this    Open XAMPP Control Panel and click Apache s  Config  Choose the Apache  httpd conf  In the editor that opened  press CTRL H and find all instances of the old folder name and replace it with the new one    For example  In my case  I had changed the main installation folder name of XAMPP from Xam to Xampp  So in the editor change this   Define SRVROOT  G  Xam apache  ServerRoot  G  Xam apache  DocumentRoot  G  Xam htdocs   lt Directory  G  Xam htdocs  gt    To  Define SRVROOT  G  Xampp apache  ServerRoot  G  Xampp apache  DocumentRoot  G  Xampps htdocs   lt Directory  G  Xampps htdocs  gt    There are many other such instances in the editor  just find and replace each and every one of them   Also do the same for  Apache  httpd-ssl conf

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You can go with the solutions mentioned above  This issue can be resolved by making changes in your  httpd conf  C  xampp apache conf httpd conf  file and  httpd-ssl conf  C  xampp apache conf extra httpd-ssl conf  file   If still the issue persists you can check with your skype port   But in my case this was different  I had to make changes in  server crt  C  xampp apache conf ssl crt server crt  file Try running your xammp apache from the command line in administration mode   C  xampp apache bin httpd exe  This will give you the errors -in which file and -which line  Likewise  I had an error in server crt file which was blank  If you have xammp running in any other system  just copy the contents of this file C  xampp apache conf ssl crt server crt  and paste in your server crt file and You are Done   Thanks and Regards Archana

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Make at first sure your  xampp folder is in the root  This is important as the path is relative   Then make sure you run the xampp control exe with admin rights  Then change the files below to avoid issues with blocked port 80    In  xampp xampp-control ini it should be set     ServicePorts  Apache 8080 ApacheSSL 4433   Find  xampp apache conf httpd conf and set   Listen 8080  ServerName localhost 8080   Find  xampp apache conf extra httpd-ssl conf and set    Listen 4433   lt VirtualHost  default  4433 gt   ServerName www example com 4433   Then end all services and restart xampp-control exe with admin rights  It should run

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The simple thing that you can do is to check if Skype or VMware is installed in your machine or not   Skype uses port 80 and 443 as an additional port for incoming connections  To change the port number in Skype  go to     Tools   Connection Options   Connection   in the Skype window  Now change the default 80 port number to something other   VMware Workstation uses port 443 for sharing  To change this  open VMware Workstation and goto     Edit   Preferences   Shared Vms    Click  Change Settings  buton Then Click  Disable Sharing  Then change the https port number being used  443  Then you can click  Enable Sharing  button   That s all you have to do  Restart XAMPP and run the Apache server

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The Apache server by default runs on ports 80  443  Your problem is one or both of the two ports are busy  Usually Skype or VMware Workstation use these two ports  So  make sure that they re not running  The best way to make sure the ports are free on windows is     Click windows button   In the search bar type resmon  to open the resource monitor resmon exe   Open Listening Ports  this will show you the opened used ports   Now you can see which process is using ports 80 and 443   Then you can kill the process either from CMD using its PID  which is shown in the resource monitor   or directly from Task Manager   To kill a process from CMD using PID type Taskkill  PID 26356  F  where 26356 is the PID

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I had the same issue  and it turns out I forgot to run setup xampp bat  portable version

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In my case this happened after installing sql server and the solution was as described in this answer  Xampp - Can  39 t start Apache after install SQL Server and Visual Studio  so I had to just disable  SQL Server Reporting Services  service from Windows services

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I followed  user2314737 s advice  his answer is on page 1  and enabled  Show debug information  under  Config  that after a restart of xampp showed me that my install path had a space     in it which wasn t allowed    My path was D  Program files  x86  xampp  so I reinstalled it to D  xampp  and then it worked

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In my case I edited the http conf file for I wanted localhost to be accessible by other computers on the network and did not set a static IP on my network adapter  I also checked netstat and saw nobody was using port 80   So I opened cmd and typed  ipconfig I also opened the http conf and searched CTRL   F  for  Listen 80   The line above it  if not commented  enables localhost to be accessible over the network  It should look something like this Listen 192 168 93 3 80  Comparing the result from ipconfig command  I saw that my current ip address isn t the same as the one on the http conf file  So I changed the ip address on the http conf file with the one currently assigned to me and it worked

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Best solution  open XAMPP control panel click on config for Apache  then click on Apache httpd config  now in the text editor   ctrl f --  find  Listen 80  and replace it with  Listen 8079  wtihout the quotations     but now you have to use it like this http   localhost 8079   P S  I tried to change port settings for skype   stopping the Web Deployment Agent Service which I could not find in windows 10 cmd--  net stop http  and other methods but nothing worked except this

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If you are using Skype  you will get this error   Just press Ctrl Alt Del goto Task Manager select Skype and click End Task then go back and start the Apache once Apache starts successfully  Then open the Skype again now both will work well   Not necessary to change any port

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If all the answers above fail to work  Do this  comment out all the extensions in php ini file    In xampp control panel  click on Apache config  click on php ini In php ctrl   F  extension  to find  all extensions in your php ini Comment out each and every active extension by adding a   at the start of each extension line  example     extension bz2 i put 3     because i wanted to know ones i commented out so that when i come back to deburg which one had a problem  it was easy for me to see which ones i commented out  Make sure all extensions whatever are commented out  Run your apache server  To pickup which extension was the problem  one by one un-comment your extensions while restarting your server until you catch the culprit

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In my case port was already used by windows IIS service  You can check if port is being already used from cmd  Open cmd and run this command   netstat -ano   If it is being used by IIS you can stop it by following command  Open cmd as administrator  then   iisreset  stop   Now try running XAMPP  it should work

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Note that whenever you change the default ports  your browser will not know about that  80 and 443 seem to be standard in some way  so for example  if you changed 80 to 8080  you ll have to access your websites this way then   localhost 8080 path to your website php

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Follow these steps    Open your XAMPP control panel then click its  Config  Choose the  Apache  httpd conf   and find this code below and change it into this one       Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below       to prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses        Listen 0 0 0 0 80       Listen      80   Listen 80       Dynamic Shared Object  DSO  Support    Save it  Ctrl   S  After that  go back to the XAMPP control panel and click its config again  Choose  Apache  httpd-ssl conf    find this code below  and change it again         Note  Configurations that use IPv6 but not IPv4-mapped addresses need two              Listen directives   Listen      443  and  Listen 0 0 0 0 443               Listen 0 0 0 0 443       Listen      443   Listen 443   Save it  Ctrl   S  Then  click the  config   note  above the netstat  and click the  service and port settings   Change  Main Port  to 8080 and  SSL Port  to 4433  then save it  Finally  go to the  control panel  -   Programs  amp  Features  -   Turn Windows On or Off   Uncheck your  Internet Information Services   and then click OK     Just wait for it and your computer laptop will be automatically restart and try to open your XAMPP control panel again  and then start your Apache

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Usually  xampp port error occurs because the default port 80 xampp trying to access is in use by another application  Most of the times this application is Skype  So  you have 2 methods to solve this problem    Close or Terminate the process application that is using the port  Use some other port for your xampp application   I personally prefer this method     These methods are well explained in this post How to debug xampp port 80 error

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One thing you can do is to stop the services on port 80 by issuing  net stop http   in a cmd  You ll be asked if you re sure you want to stop those services  I found out that I had a few services I wasn t using and disabled them   To see who else is using port 80 type in a cmd  netstat -abno   I m assuming you want to run Apache on port 80  If this is the case and you want to keep the conflicting services you will need to associate them to a new port   If the problem is not a busy port you can also try the following  select  show debug information  in the XAMPP config panel  When starting Apache you ll be shown something like  Executing  c  xampp apache bin httpd exe   If you run that  c  xampp apache bin httpd exe   in a cmd you will get some more information  I once for instance had some issue with my httpd conf file    Related  How do I free my port 80 on localhost Windows  and Apache won  39 t run in xampp

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