XAMPP Couldn t start Apache Windows 10

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I m using XAMPP  and I can start Apache  but  MySQL  phpMyAdmin  start  When I start  I get this error  10 07 49  Apache  Error  Apache shutdown unexpectedly  10 07 49  Apache  This may be due to a blocked port  missing dependencies  10 07 49  Apache  improper privileges  a crash  or a shutdown by another method  10 07 49  Apache  Press the Logs button to view error logs and check 10 07 49  Apache  the Windows Event Viewer for more clues 10 07 49  Apache  If you need more help  copy and post this 10 07 49  Apache  entire log window on the forums  I search on it  and  change the port of Apache in Config - gt  Service and Port setting  I have  Service name  Apache 2 4 Main port  122 SSL port  444  I also uninstall Skype  Windows 8 10 Metro version   Nothing is working  In the httpd conf file I have  Listen 122 ServerName localhost 122  I start it via apache start bat and get   OS 10013 An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions     AH00072  make sock  could not bind to address      445  OS 10013 An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions     AH00072  make sock  could not bind to address 0 0 0 0 445 AH00451  no listening sockets available  shutting down AH00015  Unable to open logs  Please note that all the log files don   t exists  Skype is uninstalled

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I tried everything listed in the answers here but none of them worked.

Then all I did was to re-start XAMPP with administrator rights by:

Start menu - right click on XAMPP - select run as administartor

It worked. It is that simple.

I uninstalled IIS services, stopped WWW services, changed ports back to 80, blocked all apache and mysql connections from windows 10 firewall, but yes it still works!

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It looks like there are many options  The answer depends on your Windows installation  Here is my experience when having the same problem in a Windows  10 fresh install and fix the issue with the following step   Install Visual C   Redistributable Open XAMPP and select configure in the Apache service Change the port 80 to 9000 or 81 or whatever you want in file httpd conf on the line Listen 80 Change the port on httpd-ssl conf and change Listen 443 to Listen 441 Restart XAMPP and start the Apache service  It works for me   Note  I m using XAMPP version 5 6 15 and XAMPP Control Panel version 3 2 2

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Actually  by default IIS  Microsoft   NET  etc   is installed   Go to Control Panel Turn Windows features on or off    Under  IIS  Internet Information Services  uncheck the  WWWS  world wide web services  Click OK   This could be a permanent solution

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The World Wide Web Publishing service was not the only one responsible in my case  I have IIS installed  so I had to stop the whole HTTP service  These are the commands that I ve executed in CMD  as administrator   net stop W3SVC net stop http

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I have tried all the above solutions  But it was not working in any way  Finally  I just uninstalled XAMPP and installed it again  Then it worked for me  Now I am able to run the server on any port  including 80

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I have fixed this issue with mine as well  but I had to change a couple of things  I require that on my Windows  10 machine I keep my C  and Visual  Studio development environment  so I didn t want to tinker with any services  All I had to do was download the latest version of XAMPP and change the listening ports for 80 and 443  They were located in two files  C  xampp apache conf httpd conf Listen 122 ServerName localhost 122  C  xampp apache conf extra httpd-ssl conf Listen 444  Changing the above from port 80 to 122 and 443 to 444 allowed me to have Apache run and serve pages while keeping everything else the same for my ASP NET development  Hopefully this helps someone out there   In the end this is a very simple fix  Direct your browser to  http   localhost 122

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In my case it was a simple case of removing IIS because Windows  10 comes with IIS  Internet Information Service  pre installed - that conflicts with XAMPP because these both servers try to use the port 80  If you don t want to use IIS and keep using XAMPP  Go to run search in Windows  10 Search for  optional features  On that list untick Internet Information Service  IIS   Then restart

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Check if your PHP installation works  Check which php ini file you are running in Apache s configuration and use it to run php exe

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This advice was great  I had the same problem  but my solution was different  because I was so stupid  that I have renamed directory where XAMPP was located and since I had installed a lot of another programs I couldn t rename it back  In my case there was original directory C  Programs Xampp and renamed it to C  PROGRAMS  Xampp and that was the mistake  The solution was to find all references on C  Programs and rename them C  PROGRAMS  in the XAMPP directory  because for some reason during the installation it writes absolute paths  not relative  Of course  there are some references in the registry too

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I found that running apache start in gave me the exact error and on which line it was  My error was that I left a space in between localhost  and the port

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It s simply a matter of making port 80 available for your Apache service  The way I solved the problem was   On Windows  10  right click the start button and select Run Type services msc and click OK Find and right click World wide web publishing service Select Properties Change the Startup type value to Automatic  Delayed Start  Restart your computer   There you have it  All is back to normal

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You can change the port of Apache   Go to C  xampp apache conf httpd  Find by combination Ctrl F line  Listen 12 34 56 78 80 and change the 80 to any you like for example 81 The same with Listen 80 change to 81 The same with ServerName localhost 80 change to 81  Go to C  xampp apache conf extra httpd-vhosts and change 80 to 81  NameVirtualHost   80 here VirtualHost   80 and here  two times   Restart Apache  To enter your web page  type  http   localhost 81 index html

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You may just have updated your Windows to Version 1903  OS Build 18362 239  or have changed user passwords  Despite having eliminated all port conflicts  I still kept getting the messages described by the OP at the very start of this post  In the end I cured it by upgrading to XAMPP to 7 3 7   When forced to reinstall  you might as well upgrade at the same time   But the problem reoccurred when I again went to change the  root  user password  The console error messages were masking the fact that table mysql user was corrupt  Check file mysql error log  If you are seeing Fatal error  Can t open and lock privilege tables  Index for table  user  is corrupt  try to repair it  then have a look at this

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Press Windows R  and type regedit   Go to  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services HTTP  Change the value of Start to 4  which means disabled   Reboot your computer

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Solving this problem is easy    Open a command prompt with administrator privileges   Find  cmd   right-click on it  then select  Administrator    In the prompt  type net stop W3SVC and Enter    You can now click in WAMPP and restart all services  Open your browser and navigate to  localhost    If you need to start W3SVC again     Open a command prompt with administrator privileges In the prompt  type net start W3SVC and Enter

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Update  15th May  2018   The latest Windows 10 update  re- activated the World Wide Web Publishing Service  in German  WWW-Publishingdienst   This might depend on the options you select during the configuration of the update you can make afterwards   Update  4th August  2015   If you have done clean installation of Windows 10  you may not have the Word Wide Web Publishing Service  In that case  simple WAMP XAMPP installation should work fine   If it doesn t  try installing Visual C   Redistributable and then re-install WAMP XAMPP     I was facing a similar problem with WAMP  In Windows 10 TP  the Word Wide Web Publishing Service comes pre-installed  This is related to IIS and you can remove it if you don t need it   This blocks the port 80  making Apache act weirdly  You can do the following and try again    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    This should make port 80 free and restarting WAMP XAMPP should get you up and running   There are other ways to do fix this  See Make WAMP Work On Windows 10

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I got the same problem and I solved it by uninstalling WAMP server

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Steps   Open the XAMMP Control Panel Open Apache Config  and then select the Apache - xammp- configuration file Search for  quot Port 443 quot   and then change it to some other port  let   s say 4433 Then restart

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After playing around  really all you have to do is change two lines in the httpd conf file  Change  quot Listen 80 quot  to  quot Listen 122 quot   or anything else you want  and  quot ServerName Localhost 80 quot  to  quot Localhost 122 quot   or the port you changed above  Then it all should fire right up  P

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I found a way to solve this problem    If you are using Skype as well  uncheck the field stating to use ports 80 and 443  Extra -  Settings -  Advanced -  Connections -  Uncheck Port 80 and 443  Restart Skype and XAMPP    If this does not work    Go to Start and type  services msc  Locate  World Wide Web Publishing Service  Right-click on that entry  select  Stop   then restart XAMPP    If that did not work and  World Wide Web Publishing Service  was not available    Go to the Control Panel  navigate to  Uninstall Programs   then  Turn on off Windows features  Locate  Internet Information Services  Click the checkbox and hit  OK   Restart  then repeat the second approach  services msc

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I got same problem  but the previous solutions leads us to change the port instead of getting the exact solution  I ve searched about the ports of simple HTTP  amp  HTTPS Protocols and found  If another application is already running  the HTTP or HTTPS ports on the local machine  we ll get this problem obviously just because of those ports already in use and in a busy state  That s why after changing the port number it was working  But instead of changing the port in the XAMPP server  I ve used the following methods and it works for me  Here s the following step which I ve got during this fix up   Error which I got in XAMPP Server application    At the top corner there s a button named Netstat  It s very useful for looking up the running ports on the system    This is the Netstat application where I found an application already running and using the port number 443  In my case  it was vmware-hostd exe  Your might be a different application  Try to search for port 80  HTTP  or port 443  HTTPS     I just opened the Windows Task Manager  selected that application vmware-hostd exe  and killed the process by using the End Process button  I ve killed that process which was used port 443  And this application wasn t needed at the moment    After killing the application in Windows Task Manager  Apache is now available at the moment  Here s the proof      NOTE   If you found any kind of application which is used the HTTP or HTTPS ports means port 80 or port 443 and the application isn t important or not vital then only kill the process of that application  Otherwise  there isn t any need to follow these steps  Then you need to consider to change the port of your XAMPP application as stated in the previous answers

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Go to the start menu  and type Turn Windows features on or off Uncheck Internet Information Services Press OK

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That was simple for me  Try to run the XAMPP Control Panel as administrator

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If you have installed SQL  Server  some of its services may block the port which XAMPP needs  I solved my problem by disabling SQL Server Reporting Services and now Apache starts without any problems  Just open the services msc  scroll down  and find SQL Server Reporting Services  Right click on it and click Stop

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Change the port number which port are available in your system By following ways 1  First open the Apache    httpd conf    file   Listen 12 34 56 78 80 Listen 80 ServerName localhost 80  to  Listen 12 34 56 78 8080 Listen 8080 ServerName localhost 8080  2  Open httpd-ssl conf  Listen 443  lt VirtualHost  default  443 gt   to Listen 441  lt VirtualHost  default  441 gt   3  Follow the trick  Now    Start    Apache and if everything goes well  your Apache server should start up

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