XAMPP Apache won t start

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I am using Windows 8 Pro  I have just installed XAMPP Windows 1 8 1   I tried to start Apache from the XAMPP control panel but it wont start  It gives the following error     Also I have no IIS Services running  Web Deployment Agent Service also not running  World Wide Web Publishing Service also not running    What could be the problem  Can anyone please help   Error Log

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I had the same case    The reason was that I had changed htdocs folder location to another drive and although made appropriate configuration  for physical reasons  when starting apache the drive was not accessible  After making it accessible the problem has been solved    Generally it seems logical that when apache doesn t find all of the components it won t start

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If you have skype shutdown and the problem still persists  Try this  It could be that apache is set to automatic on restart  Meaning apache is already using that port  Go to services in your XAMPP control and look for apache  whatever version you have   Look for startup type and double-click it to set it to manual   Hope this works

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If it helps to anyone  I currently use VMWare Workstation in my computer  and it also blocks Apache from starting  because VMWare Workstation listens for requests on port 443    You can either comment out  listen 443  inside the  httpd-ssl config  or you can disable  Shared VMs  from VMWare Workstation General Preferences

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I experienced this issue and I preferred to free up the port  80 and my XAMPP Apache restarted again   This is how I made the port  80 free  First    -Open a command prompt and type this    netstat -aon   findstr  80   You ll get this display   Then type this command   tasklist  fi  pid eq 4    You ll get the name of the process using the is displayed  Now  press      Win R     services msc in the invite  then press Ok  Now you can start stopping all services which can use the port  80   Find some of them here  W3SVC WAS SSRS PeerDistSvc NcbService

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i had the same problem but after i went into the readme  i realised that i didn t have Microsoft Visual C   2008 Redistributable installed  after i instaled it  all worked just fine

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I am using Window 7 and It was same problem with me I am using Skype and Not start Apache  but finally solved this problem  and It s working now   Check connection setting In Skype click tools -  click option -  click Advanced -  click connection Unchecked port number and click Save

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Although this person s question seems to have been answered  I just wanted to add that I received this error because I had a typo in my httpd-vhosts conf file  got in a hurry and didn t specify a port on the VirtualHost tag

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Some process is using the port 443  so you can change the port that is used by xampp  to be able to use it  For this job you have to do this   1- Open httpd-ssl conf in xampp apache conf extra  2- Look for the line containing Listen 443  3- Change port number to anything you want  I use 4430  ex  Listen 4430   4- Replace every 443 strings in that file with 4430 and save the file

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First of all  after installation restart windows  As strange as it may be  this does matter  Also  check all apps occupying port 80  e g  Skype    Finally  what resolved my situation - port 443  VMWare have been using this port  AFter killing the VMWare process  Apache worked just fine

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As previously mentioned above in the comments - and tested out myself   This error is rather ambiguous   Therefore  you should check the error log located at  xampp apache logs  When I had this issue  it was because Skype was already listening on port 80  amp  445   I was able to get around this by exiting Skype  starting the Apache service  and then restarting Skype   You can check the current port listeners by opening a command prompt and typing Netstat -a  It is also recommended to have User Account Control OFF as it may block some features built into xxamp   Prior to this though  I had an issue after I modified my Apache httpd conf file   Reverting those changes  or reinstalling in the user s case  will resolve that issue

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I had this problem as well in XAMPP  XAMPP Control Panel v3 2 1  on Windows 8 64bit   The first thing I done was to use the  Take Ownership  command  see below for a link  and this created a better error message   From the error message above it changed to  5 49 08 p m    Apache   Problem detected  5 49 08 p m    Apache   Port 80 in use by  C  Program Files  x86  Skype Phone Skype exe  with PID 4968  5 49 08 p m    Apache   Apache WILL NOT start without the configured ports free  5 49 08 p m    Apache   You need to uninstall disable reconfigure the blocking application 5 49 08 p m    Apache   or reconfigure Apache and the Control Panel to listen on a different port  Closing skype fixes this  reopening skype allows it to change the port number itself   Adding this only because Google finds this error as the best result for  xampp apache wont start   Sorry for posting on an older issue   Take Ownership Command   http   www eightforums com tutorials 2814-take-ownership-add-context-menu-windows-8-a html

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Open services msc directly  from command prompt and disabled SQL Server reporting services   amp  SQL Server analysis services

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It s simple if you guys have and use your skype ports turn them ports off from the skype settings- Connections and unmark the port like where it sez ports 80 till 443    Problem Solved

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Look in the control panel  the service has not been installed yet    Click the  X  button to install apache in windows service and reboot  it should be working now

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For Linux Users   The solution  In terminal  sudo  etc init d apache2 stop  Edit  If you still get this kind of error at next computer start then you probably have apache2 process starting at computer startup   To prevent apache2 starting automatically at startup  cd  etc init d  sudo update-rc d -f apache2 remove  Reboot your computer and now hopefully you can turn on Apache from the XAMPP Control Panel

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To Windows users   You can easily  debug  this error by calling the apache httpd-service directly     Go to XAMPP apache bin Open a cmd-shell or Powershell here  From explorer   Shift     right click  on a blank area in the folder  enter httpd exe read the output   It is usually something within one of the many   conf-files in the XAMPP apache conf extra folders

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I commented Listen 443 directive in httpd-ssl conf located on C  xampp apache conf extra  and that did the trick for me  Next restart Apache was green

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I reinstalled it in another drive and that fixed it  But I have no idea what caused the problem in the first place

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I gave all users full access on the xampp folder  inclusive subdirectories  Afterwards it worked

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I had the same error  the error logs where empty  I ended up installing Apache as a service via XAMPP   Now when I try and start Apache I at least get some informative errors in Windows Event Viewer   Turned out to be a missing directory for a vhost  easy fix  however I was only able to view this error when attempting to start Apache as a service

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I had the same problem  I started the Xampp Control Panel as an Administrator  That worked

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After trying all the suggestion given above  Disable this  install that  I opened the xampp-control manager from the start but this this as administrator  After I opened it  MySQL was disable  I disable all of the program and enable apache first and then MySQL  Suddenly start working with no problem

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