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I just reinstalled Xampp version 1.7 and can't start apache. Just after the installation it worked perfectly, but I stopped the service to make some changes to php.ini (changed the value of error_reporting), and when I tried to restart it it wouldn't work.

I click to start and it says "Busy..." and then "Apache service started" but nothing happens. Sometimes when I click start it works for a sec and then it stops again. I cheked netstat and there's nothing else using port 80.

¿What should I do?

Read the \xampp\apache\logs\error.log file for clues.

I have this problem too. I run XAMPP, I can click Start next to MySQL and it works but when I tried to start Apache nothing happened. I tried clicking the box next to Svc, and it said "Click OK to install Apache Service" I thought it was already installed. Unclicking the box did nothing. It says below:

"Apache started [port 80]
Busy..."

I looked at that error log previously mentioned, but it is gibberish to me and I have no idea how to fix this and start Apace.

I have already run multiple installs, deleting the previous installs each time. The first time, both Apache and MySQL started fine, but I could not get anything to happen when I click "Admin" next to MySQL to get the database. Now If I try, it comes up with an empty browser window and an error message.

I am new to databases and not good at troubleshooting. Why can't this stuff just work????
~Very frustrated

Here is the message from the error log:

[Tue Apr 10 16:13:33 2012] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Apr 10 16:13:33 2012] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Apr 10 16:13:35 2012] [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 10 16:13:35 2012] [notice] Server built: Oct 18 2010 01:58:12
[Tue Apr 10 16:13:35 2012] [notice] Parent: Created child process 2392
[Tue Apr 10 16:13:37 2012] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Apr 10 16:13:37 2012] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Apr 10 16:13:39 2012] [notice] Child 2392: Child process is running
[Tue Apr 10 16:13:39 2012] [notice] Child 2392: Acquired the start mutex.
[Tue Apr 10 16:13:39 2012] [notice] Child 2392: Starting 150 worker threads.
[Tue Apr 10 16:13:39 2012] [notice] Child 2392: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Tue Apr 10 16:13:39 2012] [notice] Child 2392: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Tue Apr 10 16:32:46 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/CFIDE
[Tue Apr 10 16:38:10 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/CFIDE
[Tue Apr 10 16:40:15 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/CFIDE
[Tue Apr 10 16:42:09 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/CFIDE
[Tue Apr 10 16:46:00 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/CFIDE
[Tue Apr 10 16:47:25 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/CFIDE
[Wed Apr 11 00:29:49 2012] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 1073807364 -- Restarting.

I'd really appreciate if anyone can tell me how to get Apache to start. Thanks.

Could you try using the new control panel (xampp-control-3-beta.exe).

If you get any error messages with it or on any pages you try to access, posting that error message would be helpful.

My apache wont start too:

How can i do it?

I tryed to stop the windows ISS7 services , but its the same, it just wont start, and the error.log files its chinese to me.

marco77bb wrote:and the error.log files its chinese to me.

So why don't you show us the file?

Hello,

Also seeing the entire Control Panel log window contents would be helpful.