[apache] XAMPP on Windows - Apache not starting

I have installed XAMPP on my windows 7 machine but can't get Apache to work.

On start I get the following errors:

13:09:21  [apache]  Apache Service Detected With Wrong Path
13:09:21  [apache]  Uninstall the service manually first
13:09:21  [apache]  Possible problem detected! 
13:09:21  [apache]  Port 80 in use by "system"!
13:09:21  [tomcat]  Tomcat Service Detected With Wrong Path
13:09:21  [tomcat]  Uninstall the service manually first

After opening the XAMPP panel and installing Apache service: I have tried start it, it always get stuck "Starting apache service..."

Any advice on how I could resolve this ?

Thanks Jamil

For me, the problem was I had two installations of Apache Tomcat

The following steps solved my problem:

1. Open up services.msc in command prompt
2. Select the Apache Tomcat service, right click and select properties
3. Check the path to the executable of the service
4. Follow the instructions in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7190480/modifying-the-path-to-executable-of-a-windows-service to change the path to "\tomcat\bin\tomcat7.exe" //RS//Tomcat7
5. Restart XAMPP Control Panel

refer this:- http://www.sitepoint.com/unblock-port-80-on-windows-run-apache/

and to enable telnet http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/910.windows-7-enabling-telnet-client.aspx

I had my Apache service not start same as MySQL one. Please follow these steps if none of above tips works :

1. Open regedit.exe on any windows this available . Run as administrator. (Only on windows 7 and later editions )
   2. Go to local machine/system/controlset001/services
   3. Find and delete folders of services apache and mysql .
   4. Uninstall xampp . Delete folder of xampp.
   5. Restart computer and reinstall Xampp . After that your Xampp apache and Mysql should work.

Note: Ports 80 and 443 must be unused by any program. 
      If it is in use . Just edit ports. There is a lot of tutorials about that .

I encountered the same issue after XAMPP v3.2.1 installation. I do not have Skype as most people would believe, however as a Software Developer I assumed port 80 is already in use by my other apps. So I changed it by simply using the XAMPP Control Panel:

Click on the 'Config' button corresponding to the APACHE service and choose the first option 'Apache (httpd.conf)'. In the document that opens (using any text editor - except MS Word!), locate the text:

Listen 12.34.56.78:80

Listen 80

And change this to:

Listen 12.34.56.78:83

Listen 83

This can be any non-used port number. Thanks.

I spent over 3 hours to find out solution. Actually port 80 was being used by "system" service so I tried to change port from 80 to 8080 in "httpd" file but same problem raised "port 80 is used by system". It had driven me mad for 3 hours as every thing was changed like port , localhost server etc pointing to 8080.

At last I found mistake that was server root. Basically "Server Root" in "httpd" should be pointing to apache foler of xampp. In my case that's was

ServerRoot "xampp/apache"

I just changed it as follows:

ServerRoot "C:/xampp/apache" 

It has worked successfully and now everything is running with OK status.

I know this is somewhat of an old topic, but in case anyone reads this in the future...

I uninstalled xampp, deleted everything under the c:\xampp folder, then reinstalled xampp as administrator and it worked like a charm.

my friend this the will fix ur problem ;)

in root of folder ( xampp ) just run this file ( setup_xampp.bat ) then press enter

and try to start the apache server

every things will work like charm ;)

The most likely reason would be that something else is using port 80. (Often this can be Skype, IIS, etc.)

This tutorials shows How to Change the Apache Port in XAMPP