Hi Izzy,
Here are my answers to your questions. Thanks for your help. This must cost you an enourmous amount of time!!
How did you confirm that indeed the services were definitely uninstalled as this does not always happen?
I clicked the \xampp\apache\uninstallservice.bat and checked through Ctrl-Alt-Del tab services. Same with the Mysql service.
Installing to C:\ drive is the default but installing to the root of G:\ should not present a problem.
OK, I'll leave it like that then.
Ignore the *** Directory Mismatch *** warning as it is irrelevant but by all means do a forum search for it if you want find a way to remove the message.
It's not rally a problem to me, as long as this &*^$%#) server would start!
In your XAMPP Control Panel (XCP) is Apache and MySQL showing a green Running indication?
Sure!
Does xampp-portcheck.exe show correct use of the ports after starting Apache and MySQL?
Before:
RESULT
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Service Port Status
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Apache (HTTP) 80 free
Apache (WebDAV) 81 free
Apache (HTTPS) 443 free
MySQL 3306 free
FileZilla (FTP) 21 free
FileZilla (Admin) 14147 free
Mercury (SMTP) 25 free
Mercury (POP3) 110 free
Mercury (IMAP) 143 free
After:
RESULT
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Service Port Status
===================================
Apache (HTTP) 80 SYSTEM
Apache (WebDAV) 81 free
Apache (HTTPS) 443 SYSTEM
MySQL 3306 SYSTEM
FileZilla (FTP) 21 free
FileZilla (Admin) 14147 free
Mercury (SMTP) 25 free
Mercury (POP3) 110 free
Mercury (IMAP) 143 free
When I started the MySql service, the message was:
Please dont close Window while MySQL is running
MySQL is trying to start
Please wait ...
MySQL is starting with mysql\bin\my.cnf (console)
090322 14:08:16 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 46409
090322 14:08:16 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
090322 14:08:16 [Note] mysql\bin\mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.1.30-community' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL
When I go to localhost, error message is:
Verbinding onderbroken ( communication aborted)
De verbinding met de server werd geherinitialiseerd tijdens het laden van de pagina. ( the communication with the server was reinitialised during page load)
De netwerklink werd onderbroken tijdens het onderhandelen over de verbinding. Probeer het opnieuw.
(the network link was interrupted during negotiation about the connection. Try again)
I see a German language XAMPP page, with in the header the error message:
Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in G:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\head.php on line 27
The firefox tab in explorer ( or the title just after the XAMPP icon top left) reads: <?include('.version);?> - Mozilla Firefox.
I see a red bar, with the following text;
phpMyAdmin - Fout ( error)
Kan de mysql-extensie niet laden. Controleer de PHP configuratie. - Documentatie
(Cannot load mysql-extension. Check the PHP configuration )
- and a link to documentation, which I can open.)
Thanks again for your help!
Dico