orange XAMPP Administration page

[phppenguin]

Hi, hope everyone's weekend is going great! I installed XAMPP Control Panel v3.1.0 3.1.0 a while ago and had put it to back of my mind after getting XAMPP to run without getting any errors in the XAMPP control panel window. I was following a Youtube tutorial on installing Opencart on XAMPP 1.7.7 in Windows 7 and I had completely forgotten and overlooked the step of setting up the root and password. When I tried typing localhost/xampp/splash.php and several other variations of the localhost url I've seen on the net in Firefox browser it simply preforms a search for 'localhost'. How do I get to the orange XAMPP Administration Security page to set up the root and password?

9:15:36 PM [main] Initializing Control Panel
9:15:36 PM [main] Windows Version: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
9:15:36 PM [main] XAMPP Version: 1.8.1
9:15:36 PM [main] Control Panel Version: 3.1.0 3.1.0 [ Compiled: September 20th 2012 ]
9:15:36 PM [main] Running with Administrator rights - good!
9:15:36 PM [main] XAMPP Installation Directory: "c:\xampp\"
9:15:36 PM [main] Checking for prerequisites
9:15:43 PM [main] All prerequisites found
9:15:43 PM [main] Initializing Modules
9:15:44 PM [main] Starting Check-Timer
9:15:44 PM [main] Control Panel Ready

[Altrea]

Hi phppenguin,

Is Apache started? Can't see this in your control panel debug messages

best wishes,
Altrea

[phppenguin]

Hi Altrea,

No the Apache svc was highlighted with a red X. I had not click Start in XAMPP Control Panel. I decided to deleted the xampp-win32-1.8.1-VC9-installer.exe and reinstall XAMPP all over again on my Local C Drive.

[Altrea]

No the Apache svc was highlighted with a red X.

Thats okay and no indicator if Apache is started or not. The svc buttons are just for (un-)registering XAMPP components as windows services

[phppenguin]

Hi Ok I got Xampp v1.8.1 reinstalled and Apache is running when I go to localhost/phpMyAdmin to set up a database to install Opencart on Xampp [Windows] I am getting a red Access denied screen. How do I fix this issue?

[Altrea]

Apache is running

is MySQL running too?

when I go to localhost/phpMyAdmin to set up a database to install Opencart on Xampp [Windows] I am getting a red Access denied screen.

please copy the full error text with relating error number, etc.

[phppenguin]

Hi I started a new topic: http://community.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=52743

since I had trouble attaching image. Please help me in the new topic thread thanks.