Apache won't run in xampp

Question

I have just installed XAMPP and everything works fine except that I can\'t get apache to run. It seems that port 80 is the problem, I have disabled Skype to use port 80 but

Answer 1

I had the same kind of problems. I finally made it to work.

I successfully changed the apache ports to listen to ports not used by other programs Port 443 is used by SSL and Skype

I believe that the XAMPP Control Panel has a bug and I have screen shots in my posts to. I do not have enough credibility on this web site to upload pictures.

I have the whole thing written down with screen shots in the following blog posts:

http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/02/one-way-to-handle-port-80-in-use-by.html http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2014/02/on-installing-apache-on-windows-7-64bit.html http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2014/02/do-you-want-to-change-ports-that-skype.html