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I just installed xampp on win 7 64bit and I'm having issues getting Apache to start. Whenever I click on the start button, I get a message that says it starts but it never starts to run. Here is a pic of it.


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I've disabled IIS service by disabling it from the features list in control panel. http://localhost will also not load. I don't know any other Info I need to post so just ask if anything else needs to be known.

Thanks for any help.

I'm having the same problem. The first thing to do after you click start on Xampp control panel is to check the error log file which should tell you a bit more about the error. It will be in the logs folder of apache in the Xampp area.

Syntax error on line 505 of D:/Program Files (x86)/Xampp/xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
SSLSessionCache: Invalid argument: size has to be >= 8192 bytes

That segment was repeated for every attempt I made to start apache.

NEVER (!!!) install XAMPP to the Program Files (x86) Directory!!!
Never install xampp to a folder or subfolder which has white-spaces, brackets or other special chars in it!

Changing the install directory worked. Thanks for the help.