xampp no longer working

[Ladydee]

I installed Xamp when I first set up my lap top. It stopped working, so I uninsalled it and re-installed it. I was using port 90 for apache since IIS uses port 80. Also my Mysql is now having problems. Please tell me how to set the ports for both of these, it is stating that there is a conflict and I turned the firewall off to do the install.

If needed I can post a copy of my http.conf file


Thank you
Ladydee

[Ladydee]

OK, I finally got everything running but I can not get into locahost:90/xampp to set my user id and password for xampp nor phpadmin.

Can someone help.

Thank you
Ladydee

[Izzy]

it is stating that there is a conflict

No need to paste the httpd.conf file.

Can you post the actual error messages please.

What do you see when you run http://localhost:90/xampp


BTW it is often easier to disable IIS if you will know you are not going to use it which will then allow you to use the default httpd.conf file.

Also if you use Skype then you can configure Skype to use other ports also.

What OS are you using then I may be able to give advises how to do this reconfiguring?

[Ladydee]

I do use IIS as well, because I use SQL as well. I do not use Skype.

Here is the message I get when trying to enter into phpadmin:

Welcome to phpMyAdmin
#1130 - Host 'localhost' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server
Language

Log in
Username:
Password:
Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed.

Thank you
LadyDee

[Izzy]

Drag this file xampp\phpMyAdmin\config.inc.php in to your text editor and change this line:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';

to this:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';


Save the file and try to open phpMyAdmin again but first empty your browser's cache.

[Ladydee]

I could not find that line.

Thank you
Ladydee

[Izzy]

Can you please paste the config.inc.php file here.

What Windows version are you using?

What version of XAMPP are you using?

What error message when you go to http://localhost:90 ?

What do you see when you go to http://localhost:90/security ?

BTW the alternative (http-alt) port to port 80 is port 8080 as port 90 is already assigned.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers

[Ladydee]

I can get to those areas now like http://localhost:90/xampp and http://localhost:90/xamp/security. I am using xampp 1.7.0.

Here in the file:

<?php
/*
* This is needed for cookie based authentication to encrypt password in
* cookie
*/
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'xampp'; /* YOU SHOULD CHANGE THIS FOR A MORE SECURE COOKIE AUTH! */

/*
* Servers configuration
*/
$i = 0;

/*
* First server
*/
$i++;

/* Authentication type and info */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie'; // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPasswordRoot'] = true;

/* User for advanced features */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = '';

/* Advanced phpMyAdmin features */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = 'pma_bookmark';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = 'pma_relation';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = 'pma_table_info';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = 'pma_table_coords';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = 'pma_pdf_pages';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = 'pma_column_info';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = 'pma_history';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] = 'pma_designer_coords';

/*
* End of servers configuration
*/

?>

[Izzy]

The file looks fine.

You still can't access phpMyAdmin and get the error message?

Clear your browser's cache as you may be being served a cached page instead of being served the web server page - you browser cache should be cleared often when developing at localhost level.

[nimd4]

Control Panel, Add/Remove Windows Components?.. Can you remove IIS, or is it in use actually?



...that should be simpler :)

[Ladydee]

I use it, I doing web developing with MySQL and MS SQL. I have always used xampp, this is the first time I had a problem.

Cleared cookies and tried this in two browsers and got the same thing.

Thank you
Ladydee

[Izzy]

No not cleared cookies, that won't help but cleared browser cache - in Firefox it is under tools>options>advanced>network in IE its under tools>internet options>delete files or similar.

In your httpd.conf file you changed the Listen 80 to Listen 90 correct?

In the httpd.conf file you changed ServerName localhost:80 to ServerName localhost:90 correct?

You also still have your Windows firewall disabled?

[Ladydee]

I believe MySQL is not running even through it says so in services and in the xampp control panel.

I just ran one of my php files which calls the database and it had ran before and I got the following:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 0 in D:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\Mary\GeorgiaVending\manage.php on line 6

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in D:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\Mary\GeorgiaVending\manage.php on line 6


Ladydee

[Izzy]

Do you have another php.ini file somewhere like in the Windows folder perhaps, if so rename or delete that php.ini file as only the one in the apache\bin folder is used in XAMPP.

http://localhost:90/xampp/phpinfo.php look for Loaded Configuration File.

Make sure in your firewall port 3306 is open.

Also try http://127.0.0.1:90/phpmyadmin

[Ladydee]

I checked and there is no other php on my laptop, there is another Perl and there is Python on d:/perl and d:/python. I check the phpinfo and got D:\Program Files\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini . The second option did not work http://127.0.0.1:90/phpmyadmin either.

Thanks
Ladydee