Hi everyone.
I thought it sounded to good to be true. The website says "just download and install and off you go!" I wish it was this easy!!
On this PC I am running win 2000 which is uptodate with all latest releases. I downloaded the installer version of xampp. I ran install and chose all services. I got two errors:
"Apache 2.2 service failed, Port 80 or 443 SSL already in use" and
"Filezilla service FTPD failed, Port 21 already in use.
I searched in this forum and found a possible solution which said that it was probably port 443 not 80 that was the problem. I don't need ssl so I commented out "Include /conf/extra/httpd-ssl-conf" in the httpd.conf file.
I started the xampp control panel which showed mysql running OK. I tried to click on Admin opposite apache and immediately began to get the same error message every few seconds: "Access violation at address ***** in module libMYSQL.dll" I had to kill the control panel to stop them
I have found and run the portcheck utility. It shows Apache HTTP on Port 80, Apache HTTPS on 443 and Mysql on 3306.
Not sure where to go now. I will go on searching elsewhere for info as well. I really want to get this going as I need to check my website on my local PC, and then take the pc to to do demonstrations at places without internet connections.
Can you help please. (BTW as you will have guessed by now - I am only a newbie at this stuff)
TIA
Richard