Xampp MySQL not starting - “Attempting to start MySQL service…”

Question

I\'ve just installed XAMPP for Windows - should be the newest version (XAMPP Control Panel v3.2.1).

Apache is running just fine on port 80 and 443, but MySQL is not

Answer 1

I have the same problem. Finally found the solution:

The Relocate XAMPP option in the setup tool didn't correctly relocate the paths and corrupted them, but I've manually change the directories inside my.ini (base dir, data dir , ...). After that mysql started successfully.