Apache is not running from XAMPP Control Panel ( Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly. This may be due to a blocked port)

Question

I have installed XAMPP (xampp-win32-1.8.2-0-VC9-installer.exe) on Windows 7 successfully. But unfortunately, the following error was found during running Apache from XAMPP C

Answer 1

Use any method for which the server is working after that you can use this address to open the page on browser (if you've replaced the port 80 with 81 )

http://localhost:81/phpmyadmin/

Answer 2

Accompanying Timmay's answer, You need to do two changes-

Listen 80 --> Listen 81 (near line 58)

ServerName localhost:80 --> ServerName localhost:81 (near line 218)

Answer 3

I have installed VMWare Workstation. So, It was causing the error.

Services.msc and stopped the 'Workstation' Services.

This has solved my problems.

Thanks

Answer 4

I also faced the same problem. And I found an easy and fast solution.

The only thing you need to do is to run XAMPP server as administrator everytime.

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Answer 5

Run these commands in terminal and everything will work fine:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop   
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

Answer 6

i have found that similar issue on my system, and that was from skype installed before xampp installed. i got similar error. for fixing the error i followed these,

1. logged out to skype for a while ,
2. restarted apache from xampp control panel,
3. checked on browser, whether it worked or not, by http://localhost/
4. got it worked,
5. signed in again to skype,
6. all working great, as simple as that

i wasn't need nothing to install or uninstall, and this worked for me in less then 1 minute.

cheers