I am running on Windows Vista.
I already had version 2.2.6 of Apache running (located in c:/Apache).
I installed version 1.7.3 of xampp (via a Google Chrome window). The installation all seemed to go smoothly and installed the package under c:/xampp.
However, even on system restart, it is my previous version of Apache that is running, on port 80. http://localhost maps onto the htdocs dir in my old installation. There is no mapping for http://localhost/xampp.
The xampp control panel allows me to stop and start the OLD Apache service; obviously i am surprised that it is not pointing at the new version installed with xampp. Can I rectify? Or do I have to uninstall xampp (if so, how?), stop old Apache before completing install? And/or configure something else?
Probably irrelevant but this link... http://www.nat32.com/xampp/index.htm says the files xampp.exe and service.exe should be copied to c:\xampp, but these don't seem to have been downloaded.