So, I am scratching my head over a problem that occured two days ago. I am not able to start Apache on my XAMPP portable installation. I try to start it from the Control Panel but it just stops again with the message: Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly. Most of the articles describing this problem assumes that the ports that Apache is trying to listening to is in use by some other program on the computer and that you have a port conflict. Then the suggestion is to change the Apache port to something else. I've run netstat and I am absolutely sure that I don't have anything on my computer with a listening port of 80/443. Just for the fun of it I stll changed the port number to something else, so we can rule out that option.
I can't really see something useful in the event log or apachelog either. Anyone have som tips to how to troubleshoot this?