Xampp Control Panel won’t start on its own

Posted on June 5, 2009 | Category: xammp

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?

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