XAMPP Ports Change On its Own

Question

My Apache Ports are set to:
80 and 443

Looking at the XAMPP control panel a few hours later, I noticed the Ports had changed to

Answer 1

If you have Xdebug installed there might be problem as XAMPP and Xdebug have some up-and-down scenarios. Check whether Xdebug is listening to PHP. if yes disable or deactivate that listening till you finalize with the database.