I have been struggling with my XAMPP installation. After installaion my sql and appache are not marked "X" like its supposed. Below is the error i get.
10:24:35 PM [main] Initializing Control Panel
10:24:35 PM [main] Windows Version: Windows 8 32-bit
10:24:35 PM [main] XAMPP Version: 5.5.27
10:24:35 PM [main] Control Panel Version: 3.2.1 [ Compiled: May 7th 2013 ]
10:24:35 PM [main] You are not running with administrator rights! This will work for
10:24:35 PM [main] most application stuff but whenever you do something with services
10:24:35 PM [main] there will be a security dialogue or things will break! So think
10:24:35 PM [main] about running this application with administrator rights!
10:24:35 PM [main] XAMPP Installation Directory: "c:\xampp\"
10:24:35 PM [main] Checking for prerequisites
10:24:35 PM [main] All prerequisites found
10:24:35 PM [main] Initializing Modules
10:24:35 PM [Apache] Problem detected!
10:24:35 PM [Apache] Port 80 in use by "Unable to open process" with PID 4!
10:24:35 PM [Apache] Apache WILL NOT start without the configured ports free!
10:24:35 PM [Apache] You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
10:24:35 PM [Apache] or reconfigure Apache and the Control Panel to listen on a different port
10:24:35 PM [Apache] Problem detected!
10:24:35 PM [Apache] Port 443 in use by "C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe" with PID 5720!
10:24:35 PM [Apache] Apache WILL NOT start without the configured ports free!
10:24:35 PM [Apache] You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
10:24:35 PM [Apache] or reconfigure Apache and the Control Panel to listen on a different port
10:24:35 PM [mysql] MySQL Service detected with wrong path
10:24:35 PM [mysql] Change XAMPP MySQL and Control Panel settings or
10:24:35 PM [mysql] Uninstall/disable the other service manually first
10:24:35 PM [mysql] Found Path: "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysqld" --defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\my.ini" MySQL
10:24:35 PM [mysql] Expected Path: c:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe --defaults-file=c:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini mysql
10:24:35 PM [mysql] Problem detected!
10:24:35 PM [mysql] Port 3306 in use by ""C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysqld" --defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\my.ini" MySQL"!
10:24:35 PM [mysql] MySQL WILL NOT start without the configured ports free!
10:24:35 PM [mysql] You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
10:24:35 PM [mysql] or reconfigure MySQL and the Control Panel to listen on a different port
10:24:35 PM [main] Starting Check-Timer
10:24:35 PM [main] Control Panel Ready