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I have a 64bit windows 7 rig with 8GB of RAM and about 4TB of hard drive.
Ever since I upgraded to Windows 7 XAMPP has been unable to run.

I had to install an older version because since most of my work is done in Joomla, which (as of the last time I checked) is incompatible with the latest version of PHP (5.9?).

In any event, my problem hapens way before I even try to run Joomla. The server starts fine but I get a completely blank page.
I checked in the error log and here is today's entry:

[Mon Dec 21 15:43:21 2009] [warn] pid file D:/xampp/apache/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:21 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:21 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:26 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i PHP/5.2.9 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:26 2009] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:26 2009] [notice] Parent: Created child process 6864
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:30 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:30 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:31 2009] [notice] Child 6864: Child process is running
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:32 2009] [notice] Child 6864: Acquired the start mutex.
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:32 2009] [notice] Child 6864: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:32 2009] [notice] Child 6864: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:32 2009] [notice] Child 6864: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Mon Dec 21 15:43:32 2009] [warn] (OS 64)The specified network name is no longer available. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.

The latter entry sounds like it could be the culprit, but even after searching for a fix I could not find anything useful. I did find a blog post mentioning a fix (for win XP) but when I tried it nothing changed.

I also read in other threads that IIS could be causing this as well as Antivirus, Skype, etc. So just to make it easy, none of those things are active.
I deactivated Malwarebytes, I am yet to install Skype and the only Antivirus I have (for the moment) is mcAfee, but I have turned that off as well and soon I am going to get a better Antivirus because MA is really the worse (but free with comcast).

So the only thing would be IIS, but I have absolutely no Idea how to check if IIS is on or off. As far as I remember, in Vista I had to turn it on explicitly and I assumed it was the same on Windows 7.

UPDATE: I changed the port in htpd.conf to 8080 and now, after a bit of trouble with Firefox wanting to default to http://localhost/ instead of http://localhost:8080/ it seems Xampp is once again working.

However, the control panel still says

apache started [port:80]

which is weird and, I really would like to run XAMPP on port 80 and not 8080. I have a number of local shortcuts I'd like to keep and I just plain like to use port 80.

How do I check for IIS to see if it's on or not. In general, how can I find out what's using a post in Win 7?

Thank you.

I am assuming your older installed XAMPP is version 1.7.1 as you were not specific about the older version.

The server starts fine but I get a completely blank page.

Make sure your firewall is not interfering with port 80 especially so if you have Windows auto-update enabled.

how can I find out what's using a post in Win 7?

Use the Port Check button in your XAMPP Control Panel.

Or type netstat -a -n -o at a command prompt, then check the process ID number using the Task Manager>Processes tab by right clicking on the Task Bar.

Also you can right click on xampp-portcheck.exe file in the xampp folder and select to run as an administrator if the port check button won't work.

How do I check for IIS to see if it's on or not

viewtopic.php?p=134260#p134260
viewtopic.php?p=153354#p153354

All the above is for Vista, but would be similar in 7 simply adapt to suit.

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[Mon Dec 21 15:43:32 2009] [warn] (OS 64)The specified network name is no longer available. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.

See if this helps, open httpd.conf and down near the bottom of the file look for these 2 lines

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EnableMMAP off
EnableSendfile off

Add this line Win32DisableAcceptEx so it now looks like this

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EnableMMAP off
EnableSendfile off
Win32DisableAcceptEx

Save the file and restart Apache.
More details from this link

However, the control panel still says

apache started [port:80]

You can ignore this message as it is hard coded into the XAMPP Control Panel and will show port 80 no matter what port you change to - that is until a developer decides on a method to change that behavior in the source code, if at all possible.

Not sure if I have covered everything in your post or not?

Wow, thank you very much! I'll do everything you suggest. For the time being it seems to be working fine on port 8080, but I hate using a different port.
Win 7 is much better than vista in my opinion but once again I am constantly finding small differences that drive me nuts.

Your post is very compete and I am sure I'll be able to fix it following the instructions. In fact, I copied the whole thing to my internal blog for future reference.

PS: Yes, my version is 1.7.1. I need to research if they applied a patch to Joomla to make it work with the latest release of PHP. But I have anopther question you may be able to help me with.
Once upon a time I had a version of WAMP that had the ability to use PHP4 and PHP5 in the same installation. Subsequently, I was able to manually mount two different versions of PHP. However, about a month ago I tried to recreate the same thing and I could not make the entire thing work at all. Is there a place with a tutorial on how to have 2 different version of PHP5 in the same XAMPP installation?

Thanks again and Happy Holidays

Marco Conti wrote:I need to research if they applied a patch to Joomla to make it work with the latest release of PHP.

I have the latest Joomla 1.5.15 installed on XAMPP 1.7.2 PHP 5.3 and so far seems to be working as intended but check the Joomla forums first and this article.
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/rel ... eased.html

Marco Conti wrote:Is there a place with a tutorial on how to have 2 different version of PHP5 in the same XAMPP installation?

Not that I am aware of - but you can, with folder naming conventions and not using the Svc check boxes in the XCP (do not install components as a Windows service), have more than 1 instance of XAMPP installed on your PC.
Obviously you can't have more than 1 instance of XAMPP running at the same time unless various configuration changes are implemented - not advisable to run more than 1 server at time.

These forum search results may make for a useful reading source.

Thank you and merry chistmas!