desgordon wrote:I have an XAMP installation where the defaul Apache port number was changed to 8000.
Why? It is not recommended to change the HTTP Default Port (80 and 443 for HTTPS) unless there is no other solution.
desgordon wrote:Now when I try to apen mysql admin I get an error telling me that the requested URL was not found on the server.
How did you try open MySQL Admin and which was the requested URL?
desgordon wrote:However, I notice that the request seem to have been made on port 8080.
This looks very very strange, as you did not specify Port 8080 for Apache, instead Port 8000. Are you sure about that?