Hi all
Can someone please guide me on doing a full restore of my xampp please. I had a hard drive failure, but I had a backup of the full xampp directory on my backup drive.
Can someone point me to read about or guide me on how to do a proper working restore please.
I have tried to install a fresh copy of xampp and then copy over the stuff in htdocs and the mysql data folder but mysql will not startup
I also tried just copying everything from the backup to the new xampp folder by overwriting everything but that did not work either,
What am I doing wrong please
Win 8.1 Pro, Xampp 1.8.3, exe install, E:/xampp (its own partition)
Logs
1:41:09 PM [main] Initializing Control Panel
1:41:09 PM [main] Windows Version: Windows 8 Pro 64-bit
1:41:09 PM [main] XAMPP Version: 1.8.3
1:41:09 PM [main] Control Panel Version: 3.2.1 [ Compiled: May 7th 2013 ]
1:41:09 PM [main] You are not running with administrator rights! This will work for
1:41:09 PM [main] most application stuff but whenever you do something with services
1:41:09 PM [main] there will be a security dialogue or things will break! So think
1:41:09 PM [main] about running this application with administrator rights!
1:41:09 PM [main] XAMPP Installation Directory: "e:\xampp\"
1:41:09 PM [main] Checking for prerequisites
1:41:09 PM [main] All prerequisites found
1:41:09 PM [main] Initializing Modules
1:41:09 PM [main] Starting Check-Timer
1:41:09 PM [main] Control Panel Ready
1:41:19 PM [Apache] Attempting to start Apache app...
1:41:19 PM [Apache] Status change detected: running
1:43:47 PM [mysql] Attempting to start MySQL app...
1:43:47 PM [mysql] Status change detected: running
1:43:49 PM [mysql] Status change detected: stopped
1:43:49 PM [mysql] Error: MySQL shutdown unexpectedly.
1:43:49 PM [mysql] This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies,
1:43:49 PM [mysql] improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method.
1:43:49 PM [mysql] Press the Logs button to view error logs and check
1:43:49 PM [mysql] the Windows Event Viewer for more clues
1:43:49 PM [mysql] If you need more help, copy and post this
1:43:49 PM [mysql] entire log window on the forums
Mysql Error Log File: http://gmwebfiles.com/data/g/forumposts ... _error.txt
Cheers
GW