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After a few hours of trying, with no avail, apache will not start!

Like others, MySQL starts, apache does not.

I have tried changing the Listen port to 30, 8080, 8888 (all ports not used) and nothing.

I have also used netstat to see if port 80 is in use, which it has been by the following;

- Firefox (I have tried to change the port for this too, nothing).
- Unknown (there is no PID)
- Skype (I uninstalled).

Still nothing!
Help would be much appreciated.

Hi Three (there is ALWAYS time for a short salutation, especially if you are asking for help at a community board. It's a matter of politeness),

Please check if you have already installed the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) Runtime
It's a requirement for the Apache binaries included in the current XAMPP version.

best wishes,
Altrea

Sorry for being unpolite, it was late and I was tired and annoyed.

I hope you can forgive me

@Topic;

I will try this now and update with any errors, if any.

Thank you.

Edit:

Seems I already have that program, it gave me the option of repair or uninstall.

Also here is my Control-3-Beta.log file

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02:13:50  [main]    Initializing main
02:13:50  [main]    Windows version: 6.1 (build 7600)
02:13:50  [main]    Xampp version: 1.7.7
02:13:50  [main]    Control center version: 3.0.2 [ Compiled: Jul 21th 2011 - build #1 ]
02:13:50  [main]    Running as admin - good!
02:13:50  [main]    Working with basedir: "c:\xampp\"
02:13:50  [main]    Initializing moduls
02:13:50  [main]    Starting check-timer
02:13:52  [apache]    Starting apache service...
02:14:00  [apache]    Starting apache service...
02:14:48  [main]    Executing "services.msc"
02:15:19  [main]    Deinitializing moduls
02:15:19  [main]    Deinitializing main

02:15:24  [main]    Initializing main
02:15:24  [main]    Windows version: 6.1 (build 7600)
02:15:24  [main]    Xampp version: 1.7.7
02:15:24  [main]    Control center version: 3.0.2 [ Compiled: Jul 21th 2011 - build #1 ]
02:15:24  [main]    Running as admin - good!
02:15:24  [main]    Working with basedir: "c:\xampp\"
02:15:24  [main]    Initializing moduls
02:15:24  [main]    Enabling autostart for module "apache"
02:15:24  [main]    Enabling autostart for module "mysql"
02:15:24  [main]    Starting check-timer
02:15:25  [apache]    Autostart active: starting...
02:15:25  [apache]    Starting apache service...
02:15:26  [mysql]    Autostart active: modul is already running - aborted
02:15:28  [apache]    Starting apache service...
02:15:29  [apache]    Starting apache service...
02:15:30  [apache]    Starting apache service...
02:15:31  [apache]    Starting apache service...
02:15:31  [apache]    Starting apache service...
02:15:32  [apache]    Starting apache service...
02:15:35  [main]    Executing "c:\xampp\apache"
02:17:31  [main]    Deinitializing moduls
02:17:31  [main]    Deinitializing main

And my error.log in apache

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[Mon Jul 02 01:18:35 2012] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:35 2012] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:37 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.21 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/1.0.0e PHP/5.3.8 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:37 2012] [notice] Server built: Sep 10 2011 11:34:11
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:37 2012] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3372
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:38 2012] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:38 2012] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:40 2012] [notice] Child 3372: Child process is running
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:40 2012] [notice] Child 3372: Acquired the start mutex.
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:40 2012] [notice] Child 3372: Starting 150 worker threads.
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:40 2012] [notice] Child 3372: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:40 2012] [notice] Child 3372: Starting thread to listen on port 30.
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:40 2012] [notice] Child 3372: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Mon Jul 02 01:18:40 2012] [notice] Child 3372: Starting thread to listen on port 30.
Terminating on signal SIGTERM(15)


I have no idea why it isn't saying port 8080, 8888 etc (the ones I've also tried).

Solved.

Port 8888 was blocked by my firewall service (not windows firewall) I uninstalled it and unblocked the port manually on Windows Firewall.


Thanks for the help!

You are welcome and thank you for your response.
I wich you much fun with XAMPP and all that stuff