liam wrote:For some reason when i view the status page. It says that mysql and pho arent running, except when i go to one of my php appliactions it works fine any idea what may be wrong?
Goto
http://localhost/xampp/phpinfo.php and look for the line near the top that gives the location of the "php.ini" Configuration File.
My guess is that there is a bad setting (bad path maybe) in that file. Its a very long file. View it and edit it with a plain ASCII text editor. To move quickly, look for "path", "_dir", "file", in the settings. Maybe you will notice that one of the values points to a nonexistent path. On my system, some of the pathnames were wrong, and when I corrected them, it worked fine. Note in particular that though you have a Windows system, use the forward slash "/" instead of the backslash "/" when entering path information.