I have similar problems:
Though I am using Vista. My installation worked before, version 1.6.6a. And I have not used it for about a year, and coming back to it, I can not open the http://localhost/xampp/ page, the error message says:
Failed to Connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost....
I click on the apache_start.bat file, the window says:
"
Please close this command only for Shutdown
Apache 2 is starting...
(OS 10048) Normally an address can only be used once. :make_sock:
could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
Apache could not be started
press any key to continue....
"
Meanwhile the Xampp control panel shows both Apache and mysql are running.
In windows task manager, with apache_start.bat running i see 2 "apache.exe" , no "httpd.exe", one "msqld-nt.exe".
At this point, with the .bat file still running, I still can not see the http://localhost/xampp/ or the http://localhost/xampp/splash.php page.
Please help. Thanks.
I also don't understand what you meant by
It looks like you have also installed the Windows services:
- stop Apache /MySQL (if they are running with the batchfile)
- delete the services (e.g. with "sc")
- reinstall the services
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