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Hi everyone,
I have a problem with Apache. I've installed everything OK but when I press start on the XAMPP control panel it comes up 'running' but then stops. Sometimes, but only sometimes, if I reboot it runs. Most of the time it turns itself off. MySQL starts OK.

I've only installed it yesterday. I have Windows Vista Sp2 32bit. I log on as the administrator.

Here are the error logs.

[Mon Apr 18 18:11:42 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Apr 18 18:11:42 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Apr 18 18:11:49 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8o PHP/5.3.4 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Apr 18 18:11:49 2011] [notice] Server built: Oct 18 2010 01:58:12
[Mon Apr 18 18:11:52 2011] [notice] Parent: Created child process 5056
[Mon Apr 18 18:11:57 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Apr 18 18:11:57 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Apr 18 18:11:58 2011] [notice] Child 5056: Child process is running
[Mon Apr 18 18:11:58 2011] [notice] Child 5056: Acquired the start mutex.
[Mon Apr 18 18:11:58 2011] [notice] Child 5056: Starting 150 worker threads.
[Mon Apr 18 18:11:58 2011] [notice] Child 5056: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Mon Apr 18 18:11:58 2011] [notice] Child 5056: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Mon Apr 18 18:12:30 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(lang.tmp) [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\xampp\\index.php on line 2
[Tue Apr 19 16:06:17 2011] [warn] pid file C:/xampp/apache/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Tue Apr 19 16:06:17 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Apr 19 16:06:17 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Apr 19 16:06:30 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8o PHP/5.3.4 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Apr 19 16:06:30 2011] [notice] Server built: Oct 18 2010 01:58:12
[Tue Apr 19 16:06:31 2011] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3640
[Tue Apr 19 16:07:06 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Apr 19 16:07:06 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Apr 19 16:07:07 2011] [notice] Child 3640: Child process is running
[Tue Apr 19 16:07:07 2011] [notice] Child 3640: Acquired the start mutex.
[Tue Apr 19 16:07:07 2011] [notice] Child 3640: Starting 150 worker threads.
[Tue Apr 19 16:07:07 2011] [notice] Child 3640: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Tue Apr 19 16:07:07 2011] [notice] Child 3640: Starting thread to listen on port 443.

As an aside I'm a complete begginner at this so when someone is kind enough to respond please treat me like an idiot!

Cheers
Paul

Hi everyone,
Please ignore my post. I've solved the problem by reading the Vista problems section of the XAMPP website. It was Skype. Apologies if anyone has spent time on this. I told you I was an idiot!

Paul