I'm trying to get XAMPP set up to run Apache & MySQL for a the Laravel development environment that I need to start using.
When I first opened XAMPP, I couldn't start Apache because port 80 was already in use. I changed the port to 8080 as recommended by the answer here.
Currently, when I open XAMPP up, I get an error that says:
11:12:00 [Apache] Problem detected! 11:12:00 [Apache] Port 80 in use by "Unable to open process" with PID 4! 11:12:00 [Apache] Apache WILL NOT start without the configured ports free! 11:12:00 [Apache] You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application 11:12:00 [Apache] or reconfigure Apache and the Control Panel to listen on a different port 11:12:00 [main] Starting Check-Timer 11:12:00 [main] Control Panel Ready
But when I click 'Start' for the Apache service, it starts successfully.
When I click 'Start' for the MySQL service, I get the message:
11:17:01 [mysql] Attempting to start MySQL app...
and then nothing happens...
I tried doing what the accepted answer here suggests, and exited the server, deleted the ibdata1 file, and restarted the server, but it just got to the same point, with the message
11:22:55 [mysql] Attempting to start MySQL app...
then doesn't seem to do anything...
I came across the Conflicting ports of MySQL and XAMPP question, and tried what the answer suggested- changing the port number in my.ini from 3306 to 3307, and adding the line
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3307';
to config.inc.php, but that doesn't seem to have resolved the issue.
Any know how I can get MySQL to start up successfully from XAMPP?
