"apache could not be started"

There was a problem with unzipping the xampp.zip at first. And then Apache didn't work.
It said:

What do you need to know so that you'll tell me what's wrong?

I'm trying the same thing at work as I did at home. So now it's giving problems.

 

quick guess, either you already have something running on port 80, or the user your running apache2 as doesn't have permission to connect to port 80

 

Ok. What's port 80? Is there any way to make apache work for PHP testing?

 

Sure, but after you install apache you need to install php5

 

Is it going to work if apache doesn't work?

Port 80... nobody's at the office right now, but would you think it's blocked?

 

do you have antivirus ? usualy the antivirus block the port 80... if you have windows xp try to make a new user and don't open nothing on that user, after that try to install apache again

 

I have Norton AntiVirus. How can I figure it out?

Also I installed PHP5 but local host doesn't work when I go to http://localhost/index.php

Do I have to activate something to make it work?

 

here is a tutorial on how to install Apache 2.0 & php5 on windowsxp http://www.expertsrt.com/tutorials/Matt/install-apache.html ... about the port 80 i had the same problem but i made a diferent user on windows xp and it worked for me.

 

Ok I'm reading. But going back to port 80 and the AntiVirus. Is there a way to find out if it's blocked? and how to enable it? Firewall?

 

i don't know how to find what is bloking port 80 but you can change the port from apache : in the httpd.conf file you will find a line that says "Port 80", just change the 80 to another port and restart Apache. You can then access this port from a web browser by placing ortnum (that's a colon, then the port number) after the server address. so if you were using http://10.0.0.15/ as you URL, and you moved the server to port 79, now use http://10.0.0.15:79/

 

Ok I just noticed the icon in the quick launch menu saying:

 

Now I know that port 80 is blocked:

 

yea ... like i said... change the port is the best thing you can do...

 

I would say Norton AntiVirus is what is giving you the problem...

Do you have a firewall running

 

like i say the antivirus is the problem but you can't do nothing, even if you disable the antivirus the port will still be blocked... only if you dezinstall the antivirus but that is not a good ideea

 

Ok so I'm playing around with the config file by changing a few things:

# Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to 
# prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses (0.0.0.0)
#
#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
#Listen 80 [B][COLOR="Red"]I changed it to 79[/COLOR][/B]
Listen 79

Code (markup):

# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
#
#ServerName localhost:80 [B][COLOR="Red"]I changed it to 79[/COLOR][/B]
ServerName localhost:79

Code (markup):

I got this error:

 

Do you use Windows XP with SP2 install because this causes a problem too

 

XAMPP does not work under Windows XP SP2!
Sure! But here, Microsoft delivered a new firewall. This firewall blocks the important ports 80 (http) and 443 (https) and the server does not want to start (anymore). The fast solution: Deactivate the Microsoft firewall with the toolbar and try to start XAMPP once more.
Of course everybody also can define the own firwall exceptions in the security center. The following ports are needed for a basic functionality:
http 80 (HTTP)
https 443 (SSL)
mysql 3306
And for all other servers in XAMPP:
ftp 21
smtp 25
pop3 110
imap 143
AJP/1.3 8009
http-alt 8080 (Tomcat Default Port)


More Help can be found here

 

yes I have XP Service pack 2

 

Don't know how to stop IIS 5.1. I stopped WAMP.