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hi all

i am having a terrible time with this server
i opened xampp in administrator mode
i noticed some red x's beside in the module service squares but i thought that was normal
i quit the program and when i tried to open it again i get this big error message
(before i quit i did try to access the websites on my server on a mobile device using ip )

Problem detected!
11:26:29 PM [Apache] Port 80 in use by "Unable to open process" with PID 2676!
11:26:29 PM [Apache] Apache WILL NOT start without the configured ports free!
11:26:29 PM [Apache] You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
11:26:29 PM [Apache] or reconfigure Apache and the Control Panel to listen on a different port
11:26:29 PM [Apache] Problem detected!
11:26:29 PM [Apache] Port 443 in use by "Unable to open process" with PID 2676!
11:26:29 PM [Apache] Apache WILL NOT start without the configured ports free!
11:26:29 PM [Apache] You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
11:26:29 PM [Apache] or reconfigure Apache and the Control Panel to listen on a different port
11:26:29 PM [mysql] Problem detected!
11:26:29 PM [mysql] Port 3306 in use by "Unable to open process"!
11:26:29 PM [mysql] MySQL WILL NOT start without the configured ports free!
11:26:29 PM [mysql] You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
11:26:29 PM [mysql] or reconfigure MySQL and the Control Panel to listen on a different port

now when i try to activate the modules nothing happens - they turn bright red

any ideas what i can do
i would appreciate some assistance

when i run this command

Maria@DESKTOP-RU3O68T c:\xampp
# mysqld --defaults-file=mysql\bin\my.ini --standalone --console

2021-07-28 23:40:04 0 [Note] Using unique option prefix 'key_buffer' is error-prone and can break in the future. Please use the full name 'key_buffer_size' instead.
2021-07-28 23:40:04 0 [Note] mysqld (mysqld 10.4.19-MariaDB) starting as process 13644 ...
2021-07-28 23:40:04 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: The innodb_system data file 'ibdata1' must be writable
2021-07-28 23:40:04 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: The innodb_system data file 'ibdata1' must be writable
2021-07-28 23:40:04 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
2021-07-28 23:40:04 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
2021-07-28 23:40:04 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.
2021-07-28 23:40:04 0 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
2021-07-28 23:40:04 0 [ERROR] Aborting

i get the above error

Hi,

mbenic wrote:i noticed some red x's beside in the module service squares but i thought that was normal

These red X are normal. This is the state of the Windows services. If they are not set there are red X symbols, if they are set there are green tick symbols.
It is up to you if you want to start Apache, MariaDB, etc. automatically with windows or manually as application.

The log messages suggest that you have started the control panel now without elevated administrator rights.The control panel have no rights to read out the process information.
So it is very common that the blocked ports the control panel now shows are from the XAMPP components.

yes i see it works ok again when i right click and open with administrator rights

its all very new and a little very weird to me