

Type "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysqld" -install. This will start up Apache and MySql services

Click XAMPP Control Panel/Config and configure as below.Back in XAMPP Control Panel, click on green check-mark next to MySQL: this will delete service for existing installation of MySQL.This will stop service for existing installation of MySQL Type "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysqladmin"-u root -p shutdown. Stop MySQL service for existing installation.Click MySQL/Config and change port to 3307 in two places.Run XAMPP Control Panel as administrator.Here's how, along the same lines as Sarang's answer but hopefully with detail that provides extra useful guidance: I just want to make clear, because it wasn't obvious to me, that it's possible to have an existing installation of MySQL and one tied to XAMPP running simultaneously. This answer is intended to supplement the one from Sarang. Version: '5.5.25a' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL)ītw, editing is kind of hard here, having to do at every line AH00418: Parent: Created child process 324 AH00094: Command line: 'c:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe -d C:/xampp/apache' AH00455: Apache/2.4.2 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.1c PHP/5.4.4 configured - resuming normal operations AH01873: Init: Session Cache is not configured

and the following message are what I seeĦ:25:17 AM Apache Service Detected With Wrong PathĦ:25:17 AM Uninstall the service manually firstĦ:25:17 AM MySQL Service Detected With Wrong PathĦ:25:17 AM FileZilla Service Detected With wrong Path

They are configured to start automatically when the OS is loaded. I'm having the following issues when trying to access XAMPP on my Win7.
