Apache Won't Run - Windows 7 64bit

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Apache Won't Run - Windows 7 64bit

Postby garl » 25. January 2011 21:53

This is my first time using XAMPP, but it's required to use for my PHP course. My laptop is using Windows 7 Professional 64bit (freshly reformatted), and I extracted xampp-win32-1.7.3.zip to C:\xampp. I used the default settings during setup. In the Control Panel, I check Apache and MySQL, but when I press start, it says "Apache service started" but does not change to running. The same thing happens to MySQL. Any help would be appreciated!

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Re: Apache Won't Run - Windows 7 64bit

Postby garl » 25. January 2011 22:03

I unchecked the Svc boxes and now both are running. In class, we had to check the boxes. What's the difference?
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Re: Apache Won't Run - Windows 7 64bit

Postby Altrea » 25. January 2011 22:05

The boxes register the checked components as Windows Services, so that they will start with your windows.
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Re: Apache Won't Run - Windows 7 64bit

Postby garl » 25. January 2011 22:13

Thanks a lot! I wonder why it doesn't want to start up with Windows.
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Re: Apache Won't Run - Windows 7 64bit

Postby Altrea » 25. January 2011 23:00

Well, you use the zip version.
Have you executed the setup_xampp.bat file after unzipping?
Windows Services can only be used with the correct paths (by default that should already be setted to c:\xampp, but maybe you don't have c:\xampp but c:\xampp\xampp that isn't clear in your description).
Executing the setup_xampp.bat file is a good idea for setting a default timezone for PHP too.

On my Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit test notebook XAMPP is running very well with Windows Services.
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Re: Apache Won't Run - Windows 7 64bit

Postby garl » 26. January 2011 02:17

Yeah, everything's in the default directory and I executed the setup file. Ah well, it works fine as is. (:
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