Hello all. I installed Xampp about a week ago to develop my wordpress blog. For the first 2 days, Xampp worked great, mysql and apache started fine. Day 3, I open up xampp, start apache and mysql (control panel said they started fine), and tried to connect to localhost. Nothing. I tried to stop apache and mysql. Control panel reported that they stopped just fine, but the green "Running" box was still going beside both, so I'm assuming they wont shut down for some reason. I've tried:
-Uninstalling Skype
-Editing my hosts file to comment out the line that seems to cause problems.
-Changing apache from port 80
-Making sure my firewall is allowing port 80
-Running Xampp as administrator
-Uninstalling and reinstalling Xampp
Also, when I run a port-check, ports 80, 443, and 3306 all show up free, when they should be taken up by the Xampp services.
I'm utterly at a loss.