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Heyo. I just decided to start XAMPP server after a long time again and it turns out I can't launch the Apache service. It immediately shuts down after being run for no apparent reason. I checked if I don't somehow run another service on ports 80 and 443 and no, I don't. And config seems to be okay, so I don't know what happened. It does it even if I run it as administrator (which should be default anyway, but whatever). Well, the output log isn't much helpful as well. All it does it tells me this:

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22:14:19  [main]    Initializing Control Panel
22:14:19  [main]    Windows Version:  Home  64-bit
22:14:19  [main]    XAMPP Version: 8.2.0
22:14:19  [main]    Control Panel Version: 3.3.0  [ Compiled: Apr 6th 2021 ]
22:14:19  [main]    You are not running with administrator rights! This will work for
22:14:19  [main]    most application stuff but whenever you do something with services
22:14:19  [main]    there will be a security dialogue or things will break! So think
22:14:19  [main]    about running this application with administrator rights!
22:14:19  [main]    XAMPP Installation Directory: "c:\xampp\"
22:14:19  [main]    Checking for prerequisites
22:14:19  [main]    All prerequisites found
22:14:19  [main]    Initializing Modules
22:14:19  [Apache]    Initializing module...
22:14:19  [Apache]    Checking for module existence...
22:14:19  [Apache]    Checking for required tools...
22:14:19  [Apache]    Checking for service (name="Apache2.4"): Service installed
22:14:19  [Apache]    Service Path: "C:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe" -k runservice
22:14:19  [Apache]    Checking default ports...
22:14:19  [mysql]    Initializing module...
22:14:20  [mysql]    Checking for module existence...
22:14:20  [mysql]    Checking for required tools...
22:14:20  [mysql]    Checking for service (name="mysql"): Service installed
22:14:20  [mysql]    Service Path: C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe --defaults-file=c:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini mysql
22:14:20  [mysql]    Checking default ports...
22:14:20  [filezilla]    Initializing module...
22:14:20  [filezilla]    Checking for module existence...
22:14:20  [filezilla]    Checking for required tools...
22:14:20  [filezilla]    Checking for service (name="FileZillaServer"): Service installed
22:14:20  [filezilla]    Service Path: "C:\xampp\filezillaftp\filezillaserver.exe"
22:14:20  [filezilla]    Checking default ports...
22:14:20  [mercury]    Initializing module...
22:14:20  [mercury]    Checking for module existence...
22:14:20  [mercury]    Checking for required tools...
22:14:20  [mercury]    Checking default ports...
22:14:20  [Tomcat]    Initializing module...
22:14:20  [Tomcat]    Checking for module existence...
22:14:20  [Tomcat]    Checking for required tools...
22:14:20  [Tomcat]    Checking for service (name="Tomcat"): Service not installed
22:14:20  [Tomcat]    Service Path: Service Not Installed
22:14:20  [Tomcat]    Checking default ports...
22:14:20  [main]    Starting Check-Timer
22:14:20  [main]    Control Panel Ready
22:19:34  [Apache]    Checking default ports...
22:19:34  [Apache]    Attempting to start Apache service...
22:19:34  [Apache]    Executing "net start "Apache2.4""
22:19:46  [Apache]    Return code: 0


Where could a problem be? Should I reinstall it? I'll have to backup my v-hosts tho.

Oh, and apparently this is an issue as well. It started doing it when I ran XAMPP as an administrator.

I figured it out. When I launched "xampp-start.exe", the error log was more explaining what happened. So I was getting rid of my old system partition and enlarging data partition, which effectively changed the drive letter in Windows. I forgot to change it in XAMPP. So it errored out. I changed it so it looks to the new drive letter instead, now it works.