Hello all,
I had XAMPP up and running on my Windows box and all was well when one day Apache just stopped working. When I opened the control panel and clicked start I would see the green "running" message for acouple of second and it would shut down with no apparent error message.
After Googling I found that a common cause of this is another app running on port 80. I don't have either of the usual culprits(Skype,IIS) running and when I typed netstat -aon | findstr 0.0:80 at the command prompt I got nothing back, which suggests to me that nothing is running on port 80.
Either way I thought a quick test would sort the port issue out and I changed Listen to 85 and ServerName to localhost:85 in xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf. After trying to start Apache it still didn't work but I noticed something strange: I still see the message "Apache started (port 80)" even though I have changed the configuration file.
Could anyone suggest why this is happening? I am still pretty new to webserver administration and am running out of ideas. Any suggestions are very much appreciated. Thanks!