UPDATE. I have reinstalled Apache 1.8.1 using the "installer". The following errors have occurred. Can you help with this:
9:36:38 AM [main] Initializing Control Panel
9:36:38 AM [main] Windows Version: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit
9:36:38 AM [main] XAMPP Version: 1.8.1
9:36:38 AM [main] Control Panel Version: 3.1.0 3.1.0 [ Compiled: September 20th 2012 ]
9:36:38 AM [main] Running with Administrator rights - good!
9:36:38 AM [main] XAMPP Installation Directory: "c:\xampp\"
9:36:38 AM [main] Checking for prerequisites
9:36:39 AM [main] All prerequisites found
9:36:39 AM [main] Initializing Modules
9:36:39 AM [Apache] Apache Service detected with wrong path
9:36:39 AM [Apache] Change XAMPP Apache settings or
9:36:39 AM [Apache] Uninstall/disable the other service manually first
9:36:39 AM [Apache] Found Path: "C:\xampp-win32-1.8.1-vc9\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe" -k runservice
9:36:39 AM [Apache] Expected Path: "c:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe" -k runservice
9:36:39 AM [mysql] MySQL Service detected with wrong path
9:36:39 AM [mysql] Change XAMPP MySQL settings or
9:36:39 AM [mysql] Uninstall/disable the other service manually first
9:36:39 AM [mysql] Found Path: C:\xampp-win32-1.8.1-vc9\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe --defaults-file=c:\xampp-win32-1.8.1-vc9\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini mysql
9:36:39 AM [mysql] Expected Path: c:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe --defaults-file=c:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini mysql
9:36:39 AM [filezilla] FileZilla Service detected with wrong path
9:36:39 AM [filezilla] Change XAMPP FileZilla settings or
9:36:39 AM [filezilla] Uninstall/disable the other service manually first
9:36:39 AM [filezilla] Found Path: "C:\xampp-win32-1.8.1-vc9\xampp\filezillaftp\filezillaserver.exe"
9:36:39 AM [filezilla] Expected Path: "c:\xampp\FileZillaFTP\filezillaserver.exe"
9:36:39 AM [main] Starting Check-Timer
9:36:39 AM [main] Control Panel Ready
I am learning Wordpress, HTML5 & CSS3 - hence requiring a localhost.
Any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated as this is beyond me.
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Hi, I am running Windows 7 x64 (vcredist_x64 & x 86 installed)
When executing "apache_start.bat" the following error appears:
httpd.exe: Syntax error on line 35 of C:/xampp-win32-1.8.1-VC9/xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf: ServerRoot must be a valid directory
When executing "mysql_start.bat" the following error appears:
130107 13:58:11 [ERROR] Can't find messagefile 'C:/xampp/mysql/share/errmsg.sys'
130107 13:58:11 [Warning] Can't create test file /xampp/mysql/data/my-PC.lower-test
130107 13:58:11 [Warning] Can't create test file /xampp/mysql/data/my-PC.lower-test
mysql/bin/mysqld: Can't change dir to 'xampp/mysql/data/' (errcode: 2)
130107 13:58:11 [ERROR] Aborting
The only "green light" running is FileZilla.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.