Here are some practical tips for getting XAMPP running on your Windows 7 machine. I use this for getting my Hudson / Maven / Sonar demonstation environment. There are two issues that can save you a lot of time when you know how to solve them.

My configuration:

  • Windows 7, 64 bit.
  • Xampp 1.7.4 with Tomcat 7 included. (install via windows installer, nexted through install menu, no special things)

After running the installer there are two issues:

  1. Apache does not start
  2. Tomcat will only run command line and not as a Windows service.
1. Apache does not start.

The XAMPP control panel does nog give any feedback and  command line : apache_start.cmd gives the following error:

[sourcecode] Diese Eingabeforderung nicht waehrend des Running beenden Bitte erst bei einem gewollten Shutdown schliessen Please close this command only for Shutdown Apache 2 is starting … (OS 10048)Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted.  : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs

Apache konnte nicht gestartet werden Apache could not be started

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