Apache is not running from XAMPP Control Panel Error Apache shutdown unexpectedly This may be due to a blocked port

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I have installed XAMPP  xampp-win32-1 8 2-0-VC9-installer exe  on Windows 7 successfully  But unfortunately  the following error was found during running Apache from XAMPP Control Panel    5 38 38 PM   Apache     Error  Apache shutdown unexpectedly  5 38 38 PM   Apache     This may be due to a blocked port  missing dependencies   5 38 38 PM   Apache     improper privileges  a crash  or a shutdown by another method  5 38 38 PM   Apache     Press the Logs button to view error logs and check 5 38 38 PM   Apache     the Windows Event Viewer for more clues 5 38 38 PM   Apache     If you need more help  copy and post this 5 38 38 PM   Apache     entire log window on the forums

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Go in xampp apache conf httpd conf and open it  Then just chang 2 lines Listen 80 to Listen 81  And ServerName localhost 80 to ServerName localhost 81  Then start using admin privileges  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  You should also do this in the same process Still from the httpd-ssl conf file  find another line that says  ServerName localhost 443 And change 443 to 4433   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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I also faced the same problem  And I found an easy and fast solution   The only thing you need to do is to run XAMPP server as administrator everytime       enter image description here

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Had the same problem and none of the above solutions worked  So  by reading carefully the logs  I found this message       10 55 42   Apache   Port 443 in use by   C  Program Files  x86  VMware VMware Workstation vmware-hostd exe  -u  C  ProgramData VMware hostd config xml   with PID 1908      In my case  I had just to stop the VMWare service which was running automatically     The key is to read carefully the message given by XAMPP Panel when started   Hope this help

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Have you executed  setup xampp bat  script  It s inside XAMPP folder and it must be executed every time you change XAMPP folder

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I have a solution  I had this problem and research a solution  but i did not succeed  So i downloaded a newer version of XAMPP and clicked on the option netstats within the program There he gave me a list of programs and the ports they used and so I looked and had no program using port 80  but apache beyond 80 also uses port 443    and there was a program called Pando Media Boster this door  I started the task manager and finished the process of pando Average boster  Hope it helped

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If you face this issue directly after a complete new installation on Windows   It seems like the setup program already starts the http exe process and blocks the initial port 80 but does not reflect this state in the control panel   To verify  just test for a running server in your browser  Type into your browser address bar      localhost   If this displays the XAMPP dashboard  you re fine  Alternatively  check the Task Manager for a running  Apache HTTP Server   httpd exe  process   You could stop the apache process with the xampp stop exe in your xampp base folder  Then  the XAMPP control panel should work as expected

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In my case the problem was that both port 80 and 443 were in use  Steps to use to fix it are     Open xampp and click on config button Now click on   Appache  httpd conf  Open in notepad or other editor  Now click ctrl   h  Find 80 and replace with 8080  Now save and now click on Appache httpd-ssl conf   Now find 443 and replace with 4430  Now your xampp must be working fine as both these code are never in use by other programs on your system    Now your localhost will be available as localhost 8080

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If You installed SQL Express or any  Net Server then you need to stop  open cmd in administrator mode and type this line       net stop Was  now start apache

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Probably you change configuration file in  httpd-ssl conf    lt VirtualHost  default  443 gt  DocumentRoot  D  Server xServer  ServerName xyz abc com SSLCertificateFile  conf ssl crt xyz crt  SSLCertificateKeyFile  conf ssl key sftaps in key   lt  VirtualHost gt    May be you change certificate name or something in Apache folder

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XAMPP Control Panel under Windows does not always reflect what is actually going on  unless you start it by  Run as administrator

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For my case  I didn t have htdocs folder in xampp folder  It seems that it requires htdocs folder to run so you can create an empty htdocs folder in the xampp folder

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Check if you have Skype installed on your machine   Login and go to Tools - Options - Advanced - Connection and uncheck the box which says use port 80  --  Check if Apache service is already installed by firing up services msc from run command prompt    How to delete a service from command prompt  sc delete    serviceName     Remember serviceName should be replaced by exact name of the Apache service as shown is services list   Check if IIS is running and taking up port 80  If so  disable it   --   Check if AVP  Kaspersky  is running and taking up port 80  If so add httpd exe as an exception to allowed programs   --   Hope it helps

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There are many possible answers for this problem  The most common and most likely is that you re running another program which is blocking port 80 or 443  If you ve installed Skype  then you ve found your problem  Change apache s port settings to 81 and apache will work  There s a good tutorial on that To check this you can open up your command line by clicking the start menu  and typing  cmd   and enter the command      netstat -nab   this wil return a list of programs that will vaguely resemble this pattern       someprogram exe      UDP      fe80  numbers numbers numbers numbers numbers  portnumber   You need to find a line  or lines  ending in  80 and terminate them in order to start apache  If there is no line ending in  80  there are more things you can do   First  navigate to xampp s directory  default is c  xampp  and double click apache start bat  This will open up a comand line and return more detailed errors about why apache can t run  Mostly  be looking for syntax errors that you could ve created by editing your httpd conf  or httpd-ssl conf files  This is very easy to do if you ve edited it and are a new user   If still this fails  your last hope is to check the apache error log by clicking on the logs tab in apache s row in the xampp control panel and clicking error log   If none of this works  don t give up  You got this   Edit  If you change the port of apache  you will also have to go into httpd conf  located in xampp apache conf  and near line 184  replace  ServerName localhost 80  with  ServerName localhost 81  It is also possible to specify port 81 in the url of your localhost  i e    localhost 81 my project php

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If you are installed Skype  Please check this option     Another case is Windows 10  Check this    Go to Start  type in services msc  Scroll down in the Services window to find the World Wide Web Publishing Service   Right-click on it  and select Stop or Disable it if you just want to use XAMPP only

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Even if you ve configured Apache to listen on another port  you will still get this error if another program is using the default SSL port 443   What you also need to edit is the http-ssl conf file and alter the line Listen 443 and change the port number there

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For me it was because of vmware  services-it has about 2 or 3 different services  stop it and every thing works fine

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Use any method for which the server is working after that you can use this address to open the page on browser  if you ve replaced the port 80 with 81    http   localhost 81 phpmyadmin

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I have installed VMWare Workstation  So  It was causing the error   Services msc and stopped the  Workstation  Services    This has solved my problems   Thanks

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Using XAMPP for laravel development currently   I have skype installed on my desktop  which blocks port 80 and 443  both of which Apache uses   This fix worked for me   1  Under C  xampp apache conf httpd conf   search for Listen 80 and change to Listen 81  2  Under C  xampp apache conf extra httpd-ssl conf  search for Listen 443 and change to Listen 444

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Accompanying Timmay s answer  You need to do two changes-  Listen 80 --  Listen 81  near line 58   ServerName localhost 80 --   ServerName localhost 81  near line 218

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There can be lots of methods to solve this problem  but here is simplest one   GO to XAMPP-control and         Run as administrator   That s all    This is the Golden Point for any such Abnormality   Concept behind the work  Actually all the services in Xampp need Ports dependency  What happens is  When there is no special powers given to xampp  it only look for some predefined ports to run those services  And  if in case  those ports are somehow already busy    eek  the service couldn t be started   But if we give superpower to our Xampp-control  by running as administrator   it will somehow manage and for certainly on earth will run the services on the ports  And triumph  You made it   Permanent tip for my dear Brother and Sisters  To do the efforts one and for all  follow these steps    right-click on xampp-control exe file and go to properties  Go to Compatibility Tab  In the settings below  choose the checkbox Run this program as an administrator  Apply the changes  And you are done    Now  every time you run the application  it will run with the Administrator status and You don t need to take care about the ports at all

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Salam   You don t need to change port no   only go to task manager  amp  end task any other programs that are running   and then can you START APACHE         Sincerely

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1  Go in xampp apache conf httpd conf and open it   In the httpd conf file at line 176 Replace     ServerName localhost 80   with    ServerName localhost 81      It will work         Or 2  Even if the above procedure doesn t work  Then in the same file  httpd conf  at line 45 replace       Listen 0 0 0 0 80     Listen      80    Listen 80    with      Listen 0 0 0 0 81    Listen      81   Listen 81

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Run these commands in terminal and everything will work fine   sudo  etc init d apache2 stop    sudo  opt lampp lampp start

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i have found that similar issue on my system  and that was from skype installed before xampp installed  i got similar error  for fixing the error i followed these    logged out to skype for a while   restarted apache from xampp control panel  checked on browser  whether it worked or not  by http   localhost  got it worked  signed in again to skype   all working great  as simple as that   i wasn t need nothing to install or uninstall  and this worked for me in less then 1 minute   cheers

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The Best way to do so   The other methods explained above will get you stuck at a lot of places Don t go for changing the port   2 Step Process  1  Open Command Prompt as Administrator   2  type net stop http   If it says it doesn t identify the keyword  then it is only because your Environmental Variable s PATH doesn t contain path to Program Files System32 you can search on how to do it   press Y at every place it asks you to  don t worry you are not stopping any important process just some process which took your port  And that process will again take over your port once you are not working

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go to C xampp apache conf extra httpd-ssl conf   Find the line where it says Listen 443  change it to Listen 4330 and restart your computer        enter image description here  2   2

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