XAMPP Crashes on Startup

[thomasca]

I have XAMPP on Windows XP SP2, and after install, it crashes. And I couldn't find out why from the error log.

[Wed Jan 14 01:25:37 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed Jan 14 01:25:37 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed Jan 14 01:25:47 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Jan 14 01:25:47 2009] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[Wed Jan 14 01:25:47 2009] [error] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : Parent: Could not set child process stdout
[Wed Jan 14 01:25:56 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed Jan 14 01:25:56 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed Jan 14 01:26:11 2009] [notice] Child 2144: Child process is running
[Wed Jan 14 08:31:26 2009] [crit] (OS 109)The pipe has been ended. : Child 2144: Unable to retrieve the ready event from the parent

[Izzy]

Try starting Apache using the apache_start.bat file in the xampp folder as it will return a more useful error message perhaps.