My sister has asked me to help her with some web work. I am an ASP.NET developer. Always wanted to learn PHP and whatnot, so here we go. Please bear with my rank newbie-ness. I downloaded and installed XAMPP. During the install process, I observed what might have been an error flash by on the screen. But it was too fast to know for sure what it said.
I am looking at my control panel. Apache is not started. I have selected Svc checkbox. I look in the windows services. I see mysql is started. I see FileZilla is started. Apache is not listed.
I poked about. I see that there is an apache_start.bat. I looked at it. It runs apache\bin\httpd.exe. Ok I tried to run that from a command prompt. I receive the message "The system cannot execute the specified program."
I found the readme. There are bats in the apache directory for apache_installservice etc. I tried that. Same result.
Can anyone point me to troubleshooting information that would help me figure out why apache won't start?
Thanks!
S
PS. I read the FAQ. My Win XP firewall is currently OFF as per the FAQ. (I will fix it properly as per the FAQ later.)