XAMPP on Windows - Apache not starting

Question

I have installed XAMPP on my windows 7 machine but can\'t get Apache to work.

On start I get the following errors:

13:09:21  [apache]  Apache Service         


        

Answer 1

For me, the problem was I had two installations of Apache Tomcat

The following steps solved my problem:

1. Open up services.msc in command prompt
2. Select the Apache Tomcat service, right click and select properties
3. Check the path to the executable of the service
4. Follow the instructions in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7190480/modifying-the-path-to-executable-of-a-windows-service to change the path to "\tomcat\bin\tomcat7.exe" //RS//Tomcat7
5. Restart XAMPP Control Panel