xampp apache wont start.

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Temor
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xampp apache wont start.

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Heya guys. I'm having a small problem with xampp. My apache wont start running... I click the start button and it does start but only to stop again a few seconds later.
The port-check is telling me the ports are free after I closed both skype and pando media booster ( they both have a tendency to interfere with applications that use port 80 and 443 ).

Does anyone know what might be wrong?

Best regards.
JelvinJS7
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Re: xampp apache wont start.

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Have you tried restarting your computer?
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Re: xampp apache wont start.

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JelvinJS7 wrote:Have you tried restarting your computer?
6 times now. still the same problem... all ports are free, but it still wont start..

the status box tells me apache has started, but it's not actually running.
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Does the error.log file tell you anything ?
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jacek wrote:Does the error.log file tell you anything ?
Yes. Yes it did. Silly me.

Warning: DocumentRoot [C:/xampp/htdocs/projects] does not exist
Syntax error on line 57 of C:/xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:
DocumentRoot must be a directory

I had a backslash too many. It's all good now.

Thanks Jacek :)
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