Today I helped my friend to install XAMPP on a Debian system. When I tried to start the Apache webserver, I got the following message:
#/opt/lampp/lampp startapache XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL (and PHP5)... XAMPP: Error 1! Couldn't start Apache! XAMPP: Starting diagnose... XAMPP: Sorry, I've no idea what's going wrong. XAMPP: Please contact our forum http://www.apachefriends.org/f/
This problem is likely related to your Apache configuration file. To drill down to the root of the problem, we can take a look to the Apache error log:
tail /opt/lampp/log/error_log
and it should give you some info on how to solve this computer problem.
–Derrick
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Thanks……….Worked for me.
Thanks had the same problem n this helped. ThAnKs Alot
tail: cannot open `/opt/lampp/log/error_log’ for reading: No such file or directory
check your xampp path
for me its /opt/lampp/logs/error_log
the “logs” replaced the “log”
try:
tail /opt/lampp/logs/error_log
You have halped me, thanks so much ))
Thank you. Gave me just the info I needed to get Apache back up and running.
But even after looking at error_log file cant figure out why its failing. It was working with same config file but after restarting my notebook. apache is not coming up