Apache is not running from XAMPP Control Panel ( Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly. This may be due to a blocked port)

Question

I have installed XAMPP (xampp-win32-1.8.2-0-VC9-installer.exe) on Windows 7 successfully. But unfortunately, the following error was found during running Apache from XAMPP C

Answer 1

For my case, I didn't have htdocs folder in xampp folder. It seems that it requires htdocs folder to run so you can create an empty htdocs folder in the xampp folder.