kaysee Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Windows 7 SP1 2GB RAM I followed the installation instructions in the bonus appendix to the book for XAMPP and installed the programs, scripts, etc on a new partition in the folder H:\XAMPP. When I open the XAMPP Control Panel I get the following message: XAMPP Component Status Check failure [-2] Current directory H:\xampp Run this program from your XAMPP root directory. I have checked the source of the file that runs the Control Panel and it is H:\XAMPP\xampp-control.exe which is in the root of the XAMPP directory. The XAMPP Control Panel shows the following status: (tick) Scv Apache Running (tick) Scv MySql Running (no tick) Scv FileZilla (not running) (no tick) Scv Mercury (not running) When I open XAMPP in my browser the Welcome page says "Congratuation you have successfully installed XAMPP on this system and the Status page shows: MySQL database ACTIVATED PHP ACTIVATED Common Gateway Interface (CGI) ACTIVATED Server Side Includes (SSI) ACTIVATED SMTP Service DEACTIVATED FTP Service DEACTIVATED FTP Service DEACTIVATED What is the problem with the installation that causes the error message? One further problem, when I try to stop either the Apache or MySQL service in the Control Panel I get another error message which states: This program must be run from the XAMPP root directory. Busy.... ERROR: -1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 I saw/see that under Windows 7 as well. I don't know what the cause is, though, which is because I never looked into it. Aside from showing those messages, XAMPP still runs fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaysee Posted December 30, 2011 Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 Thanks, Larry, for responding. I too have found that my local server installation works fine (so far) but it would be helpful if someone would explain why I get the reported error messages and what I can do to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabsalud Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 hey larry im having a problem on setting virtual host i have followed exactly what you have told in the book but when started following it my apache doesnt start anymore it doesnt indicate its running though the other one are running whats the problem with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Given the (lack of) information provided, I expect magic gnomes are causing the problem. Try reading the forum guidelines before posting again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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