YoshF wrote:I just reproduced the exactly the problem I have had.
I uninstalled and reinstalled the fresh Installer version.
I tried the zip version with settup up and Lite 1.7.1.
but nothing improved except I do not receive the message Ports 80 or 443 (SSL) already in use! Installing Apache 2.2 failed!
With the information you have provided it will be very difficult to try and troubleshoot your issues.
The most common fault associated with uninstalling and then reinstalling XAMPP many times is not removing (uninstalling) the XAMPP components (Apache, MySQL etc.) running as a Windows NT service, stopping all those XAMPP components if running and closing the XAMPP Control Panel before finally deleting the xampp folder.
Use the provided
uninstallservice bat files in the Apache and MySQL folders to uninstall any of those components running as a service.
You can check that the services are stopped and uninstalled using the SCM button in the XCP before deleting the xampp folder and also using the Task Manager to check that no XAMPP component processes are still running.
When you have checked all the above and deleted the xampp folder try rebooting your PC and then
check again that no XAMPP components are running before attempting to install again, this is very important as you will have issues that won't go away unless you follow these steps - you have to have a clean start every time you want to install XAMPP and make sure you are logged in as an Administrator and that
UAC and
IIS are disabled (IIS = Windows default web server Internet Information Service - inetserv, which uses port 80/443 other than Skype).
BTW I have had best success using the EXE (7zip) version and after extracting the files to the root of C:\ so you have the files in C:\xampp folder, I then run the setup_xampp.bat file to set all the paths.
Then I run the XCP to start the XAMPP components when I want to use them but I
do not install any as a service (
Svc) until I require that feature, normally most users who use XAMPP for localhost development won't require Apache and MySQL to be always running and starting automagically after every reboot.