Apache Friends Support Forum

Hello everyone,

I've been dealing with this issue and just have worked around it ... but, it's an issue ... and I have simply given up on resolving it. I've searched here, Google, StackOverflow/Serverfault - nothing definitive.

I don't even want to say how much time I've thrown at it. But ... I have similarly configured systems I currently use and have used in the past. This type of issue has never happened for me.

When I start up Apache in XAMPP - it takes forever for the Apache initialization. It looks almost like Apache is checking every single port during the startup process.

I've tried many different techniques - including removing all of my hosts entries (OS) AND vhost (Apache) entries on this one. I sadly haven't kept track of every try to fix this issue.

This is what startup looks like:



It takes about 5 minutes for Apache to do whatever it's doing ... then everything goes normal - with the "Apache" bar going green, then 80,443 listed as ports. This is on a 7th gen i7 system/16gb ram. I don't think it's a system performance issue.

I have debugging / error logging on high in the Apache config. I also have virtualization enabled ... but network switches are all disabled.

UPDATE:
I resolved this. Posting an update for everyone else's sake - as I was never able to find replication of this silly issue anywhere on Google.

There was a name-host in the config causing this problem:

I Changed:
<VirtualHost this.iswrong.com:80>

To:
<VirtualHost *:80>

to resolve the issue.

Thank you for sharing the solution with us.
This issue about repeatedly changing port numbers is occuring sometimes here and this could be the reason for some of these issues.

I have the same port changing problem but I dont have the VirtualHost config like yours. Any other idea how to solve this issue? My CPU fan how blazzing when I run XAMPP.