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Joie Coffield
I want to know why I got this message because xampp has been working flawlessly up until now and in fact, less than 30 minutes ago, I typed sudo xampp start and xampp started up normally and I was able to access localhost/phpmyadmin/
-In the time between starting xampp successfully and trying to stop xampp when I got the error message above, I was trying to get the php mail() function to work by following the steps on this page -send-emailsusing-mail-function-from-localhost-in-php-through-msmtp-using-gmail-account-on-linux/ and I had just successfully finished step 1 and successfully sent the test email to myself.
-also, when I first got the aforementioned error message, I was still able to access pages via localhost (for instance I had a php file at /opt/lampp/htdocs/Brown/index.php that I could access successfully by typing localhost/Brown/index.php even after I was getting the error message) but then I tried to restart my computer to see if that might fix the issue and now I can't start xampp to begin with.
Because I've been using xampp / lampp for over one year and it's a very simple solution for web programmers - I don't need any "real" apache server on my PC. It gives me apache + php + mysql just with one simple command, and doesn't stay in memory after reboot (can be even stopped and removed after start).
The steps listed on the help page for setting up a test site don't mention the MS WPI (just XAMPP, WAMPSERVER 2, etc) but the MS WPI isn't listed so I'm not sure whether simply installing MS WPI and then DRUPAL 6.19 will be sufficient, or if there's need of some other software? (anything special to consider for a machine running Windows 7 64-bits OS?)
2. Using 7-zip, or WinRAR, or WinZip, or whatever compression tool you prefer, right-click on the xampp-win32-1.7.x.zip file and select "Extract here" it doesn't matter where you downloaded the ZIP file to, it will create a new folder called "xampp" and extract all contents within it.
3. After extracting the ZIP file, move the newly created "xampp" folder from "Downloads" to "C:\"
Note: It MUST be in a top-level directory such as "C:\", NOT within another folder such as "C:\Program Files (x86)."
If you are trying to use the latest version of XAMPP, there may be some issues with it running on Win 7 that I am unaware of. If you are wanting to use XAMPP as a test server to do all your development on before uploading to a hosted server, chances are that the hosting company isn't using the latest version of PHP anyway, which isn't a bad thing. They're probably using something like PHP version 5.2.9... in that case, you will want to use an older version of XAMPP such as xampp 1.7.1 (which is what I use).
XAMPP isn't in PortableApps.com Format, but it easily integrates with the PortableApps.com Menu by using the XAMPP Launcher (linked above) and installing XAMPP in the root directory of your portable device or creating an XAMPP\App\xampp directory within the launcher path and placing it there. The root directory is preferred. You can open the zip/7z archive of the portable version with 7-Zip Portable.