I recently decided to upgrade PHP from 7.4 (what I had installed earlier today) to 8.2.
I have tried installing all the 3 latest XAMPP installers for windows found at https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
Every time, after installing, when I try to start the server, I get the old ambiguous error:
Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly.
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When I run php --version in terminal, I get PHP Warning: 'C:\Program Files\Eclipse Adoptium\jdk-11.0.16.101-hotspot\bin\VCRUNTIME140.dll' 14.15 is not compatible with this PHP build linked with 14.29 in Unknown on line 0
Both of the errors above are the same for all three XAMMP versions I tried installing: 8.0.24, 8.1.12, 8.2.0.
I tried reinstalling my old 7.4 XAMPP, also from the website, and it installed perfectly and things were back to how they were before.
I have tried looking for conflicting ports. There are none. I have tried restarting my computer many times.
Has anyone else had this problem? Why can't my computer seem to run XAMPP > 8.0?
Other hint 1: the uninstaller is being fluky. As it uninstalls itself, it opens terminal windows that I have to manually close for it to proceed.
Other hint 2: when I try to edit httpd-vhost.config, it closes all by itself. Not normal for my trusty text editor.
I use Windows 11.
EDIT: I found a solution that worked for me at https://stackoverflow.com/a/59545871/21020683. I am still not able to start Apache, but at least the PHP software is working. When I run php --version, I now get PHP 8.2.0 (cli) (built: Dec 6 2022 15:31:23) (ZTS Visual C++ 2019 x64)
