I’ve been doing a lot of testing a WordPress template for a friend, so Xampp has come in very useful.
There’s one problem, though. The Xampp Control panel won’t start on its own.
The solution, with thanks, is at Human Language Weblog:
If Apache2 or MySQL is already running, then XAMPP will not start. You must stop these applications, if you want to use XAMPP:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
Then Xampp is happy and starts Apache and MySql.
The Xampp control panel used to work without the above stop commands, ie it worked a few years back, which makes it particularly frustrating, especially when using it a lot.
I’ve searched high up and down in Google, but no solution in sight. Anyone any ideas?
