Last week I posted an article about localhost doesn’t work in Windows Vista using NOD32 v3.0. Today I almost have the same issue but this time I suspected that it’s my Windows Defender that stopped my Apache from running on Xampp and gave me an error Port 80. I noticed that the Windows Defender is asking me to scan my computer so I decided to let the program finish scanning but to no avail, it did the same thing. Error saying “Apache HTTP Server has stopped working”. According to the pop-up message, Windows is trying to check for solutions as expected by Microsoft nothing was found.
I’m losing my patience because I need to sleep and in a few hours I’ll be going to work. I just cant seem to finish designing a theme that I’ll be releasing to the public soon. Oh well, things are not on my side these days. So what I did is restart my computer and hoping that it might be a glitch only. Unfortunately same thing happened. I didn’t bother to turn off any of my internet security such as Nod32 Anti-virus, Windows Defender and Windows Firewall because I’m positive that those programs I just mentioned are not the culprit.
Further troubleshooting: Since my localhost has several folders I tried the old folder that I haven’t been using for months now. e.g. http://localhost/”oldfolder”. It gave me hope because I was able to view it, I thought its already fixed. So I went back to new folder were I’m getting the Apache has stopped error apparently nothing was change. Then I sensed that its not really the apache thats giving me headaches but rather it is something in my coding. After several minutes of debugging my codes, I was able to solve the issue. It’s a TEMPLATEPATH php code that shouldn’t be inside the same php file. Who’s to blame? ME 
Getting the same problem? If my solution didn’t work, care to share your fix?
I am having the same error whilst installing Magento on XAMPP locally. Can not find a solution anywhere!!
Hey. Did you find your problem was with within one of the http.conf or php.in files or was it within the software you made or were using.
Thanks for the help
Will
grrrrrrrr.. I also have the same issue. my localhost was running perfectly until I installed nod32 v3. I can’t use http://localhost but I can access it via the ip which is http://127.0.0.1 – please I’m getting crazy with this error!!!!
For what it’s worth, I went back to my php.ini-developer and it worked. Here were the differences between my modified file and the original.
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error_log = “c:\php\errors.log”
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extension_dir = “c:\php\ext”
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cgi.force_redirect = 0
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;upload_tmp_dir = “c:\php\upload”
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session.save_path = “c:\php\session”
Hi, I have installed xampp and it is working fine. but after re-starting computer I came accross the following error.
localhost is not set up to establish a connection on port world wide web service (http) with this computer.
Would you please assist ! I have unckecked SKYPE port 80 as this causes problem.
I’m interested in the same solution… I’m having the same problem that ‘Guy’ posted on 11/9. Please help….!