Problem in Xampp

Question

i am having trouble starting apache in Xampp when start hit appears the message sequinte:

This may be due to a blocked door, lack of dependencies, 18:17:44 [Apache] improper privileges, a failure or a shutdown by another method. 18:17:44 [Apache] Press the Logs button to view the error logs and check 18:17:44 [Apache] the Windows Event Viewer for more clues 18:17:44 [Apache] If you need more help, copy and publish this 18:17:44 [Apache] entire registration window in the forums

I’ve changed the door several times and it hasn’t worked yet

Hello can help me please

Answer 1

My Xampp Apache presented the same problem, overnight stopped booting. That’s when I noticed that the problem started to occur after I installed Vmware Workstation (it may also occur with the installation of Virtualbox program), because it uses port 443 that is also used by Apache.

Do the following:

Identify what is causing the error:

1. Check if port 443 is being used by another service/program (the same error may also occur with port 80, the process for checking is the same) :

2. Run the MS-DOS Command Prompt, one of the ways to do this is by pressing the Windows + R key and in Run type CMD and click OK.

3. In MS-DOS type the netstat -ao command and press ENTER.

4. In the list shown we verify that port 443 is being used by another service/program, write down the PID of the process that is using port 443, which in the case of this example is PID number 14320.

5. Now let’s identify the application that is using port 443. Still at the MS-DOS command prompt type the tasklist /fi command "PID eq [PID number]" which in the case of this example the command will look like this: tasklist /fi "PID eq 14320"

7. In the result we can verify that in the case of this example the service/program that is using port 443 is Vmware-hostd.exe which is used for running and using the Vmware Workstation application to create virtual machines.

We now come to the 2 possible solutions:

Solution 1:

1. Stop all Vmware Workstation services and change the properties of the services to run manually, that is, whenever you need to use Vmware Workstation you will first need to start its services manually. For this, do the following procedure:

2. Run the Windows Service Manager. One of the ways to run it is to press the Windows + R keys in Run type services.Msc and click OK.

3. In Service Manager, locate the services you want to stop and change their properties, in this example is Vmware Workstation:

4. As can be verified in the image, for Vmware there are 5 services listed and running, we will stop them all by clicking on each of them and then clicking on "Stop the service". Then we will right-click on each of them and click on the drop-down menu click on Properties:

5. In the Service Properties, under the General tab, under Boot Type change to Manual and click OK.

6. Apache will now start normally and whenever you need to use Vmware Workstation just run the services.Msc (Service Manager) select the Vmware services and click Start. (But for this, if you are using Apache you will have to stop Apache, otherwise error may occur and Vmware services will not be initialized).

Solution 2:

1. Change port 443 to port 4433 on Apache. To do this go to the apache conf extra folder and edit the httpd-ssl.conf file by changing the line Listen 443 to Listen 4433. In the case of our example, we add the # symbol before Listen 443 so that the line is interpreted as a comment and the command is not executed and add in the line below the command Listen 4433, is defined that port 4433 in Apache will be used for https and tls/ssl protocols. Make this change, save the file and initialize Apache.

2. If the problem is with port 80, switch to port 81 by editing the httpd.conf file in the apache conf folder by changing the line Listen 80 to Listen 81.

I hope to have collaborated and that this small tutorial will be useful.

Hug to all.