Apache Friends Support Forum

Hi,

I've been using Xampp for about 8 month, for test driving wordpress. It's always been working just fine until today that it just doesn't seem to want to start. When I try to start Appache, I get "Attempting to start Apache service..." and nothing else happens. When I try to run MySQl, it does start but then I get the "shutdown" unexpectedly error.

Tried changing the port ID, didn't work. How can I solve this? ... that test wordpress website is months of time and effort.

Thanks.

Roya

Hi,

Any Windows event log entries?
Ever tried to start Apache without service?
Ever tried to start Apache with apache_start.bat script?

best wishes,
Altrea

Nope, I don't actually know how to do those things. Could you please let me know how? I'd appreciate it.

P.S: I'm a civil engineer, not really familiar with Xampp

The easiest thing would be to execute (by doubleclick) the \xampp\apache_start.bat script and tell us what response you get. This can be done even the Windows service is registered.

This is what I get:

Syntax error on line 37 of C:/Users/.../xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf: ServerRoot must be a valid directory

Apache could not be started

You installed XAMPP into your users directory, that is not recommend.
open the mentioned file and tell us which value the setting ServerRoot has.

here:

ServerRoot "C:/Users/nonezzzzaol.com/Documents/xampp/apache"

OK, so I went and changed all the directories in all the Apache and MySQL files. Now these two work perfectly but when I try to access my Wordpress test-drive site, I get this message:

"Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress."

Now what do I do?!