vernb wrote:I've have tried so many different things!
The problem is that I have installed XAMPP 1.7.4 (32bit) on Windows 7 and both Apache and MySQL are running according to XAMPP Control Panel and they are listening to their corresponding ports BUT when I go to XAMPP Status, PHP and MySQL are both shown as deactivated. The big problem is that I cannot access phpMyAdmin!
Before you ask - I uninstalled Skype a few restarts ago!
Any suggestions will be very much appreciated - especially those that work!
Thanks
Vern
I have finally solved it with a bit of this and a bit of that from other similar postings.
Here's what I did.
Uninstalled XAMPP 1.7.7
Deleted the folder XAMPP
Rebooted
Then I installed XAMPP 1.7.7 on my D Drive
Ran XAMPP as administrator
I installed Apache and MySql as services (not sure that made a difference!)
Then went to the MySql my.ini file:
C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini
I removed # from bind-address = "127.0.0.1"
Then I opened C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\HOST where it had
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
and I removed all but one!
And now I can access phpMyAdmin! YES!!!!!
Thanks to everyone, especially Sharley.
Vern