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.

Answer 2

In my case problem with xdebug in some case solution update xdebugg file from xdebug site https://xdebug.org/download.php if it not work please comment xdebug code in php.ini

Answer 3

This is the full scenario i am explaining here that will clear you out :

We get a php page not responding, the first thing comes to our mind is : Is the apache service running on xampp ?

we immediately go to the xampp to check, and what we see is , the port is not 80 !!! Definitely every one will deduce the result that its port issue (same case happened to me) .

While its not the port issue. infact xampp changes the ports for it self. while requests are recieved on 80 as normal.

The real issue at that time is : that our code is not connecting to Database.

Hence . please keep in mind, there is no issue in that. Your apache is fine. Just go and check your db connection !! and cheers :)

Answer 4

I was also facing the same issue in my local PC. I was trying with URL 127.0.0.1/project-name Then i tried with URL http://localhost/project-name and it worked. I don't know how but it worked.

Answer 5

Have you got skype? Because automatically skype uses port:80 and or 443.

Try to change it.

Answer 6

I experienced this behaviour when using XDebug.
Everything in XAMPP was very slow, phpmyadmin or any website. Ports were changing almost on every request.
Commenting [XDebug] block on php.ini was my solution.