XAMPP: Couldn't start Apache (Windows 10)

Update: 15th May, 2018:

The latest Windows 10 update (re-)activated the World Wide Web Publishing Service (in German: WWW-Publishingdienst). This might depend on the options you select during the configuration of the update you can make afterwards.

Update: 4th August, 2015:

If you have done clean installation of Windows 10, you may not have the Word Wide Web Publishing Service. In that case, simple WAMP/XAMPP installation should work fine.

If it doesn't, try installing Visual C++ Redistributable and then re-install WAMP/XAMPP.

I was facing a similar problem with WAMP. In Windows 10 TP, the Word Wide Web Publishing Service comes pre-installed. This is related to IIS and you can remove it if you don't need it.

This blocks the port 80, making Apache act weirdly. You can do the following and try again.

  • Go to Start, type in services.msc
  • Scroll down in the Services window to find the World Wide Web Publishing Service.
  • Right click on it and select Stop.

This should make port 80 free and restarting WAMP/XAMPP should get you up and running!

There are other ways to do fix this. See Make WAMP Work On Windows 10.


Solving this problem is easy:

  1. Open a command prompt with administrator privileges
    • Find "cmd", right-click on it, then select "Administrator".
  2. In the prompt, type net stop W3SVC and Enter.

You can now click in WAMPP and restart all services. Open your browser and navigate to "localhost".

If you need to start W3SVC again,

  1. Open a command prompt with administrator privileges
  2. In the prompt, type net start W3SVC and Enter.

I found a way to solve this problem:

  1. If you are using Skype as well, uncheck the field stating to use ports 80 and 443 (Extra -> Settings -> Advanced -> Connections -> Uncheck Port 80 and 443)
  2. Restart Skype and XAMPP.

If this does not work,

  1. Go to Start and type "services.msc"
  2. Locate "World Wide Web Publishing Service"
  3. Right-click on that entry, select "Stop", then restart XAMPP.

If that did not work and "World Wide Web Publishing Service" was not available,

  1. Go to the Control Panel, navigate to "Uninstall Programs", then "Turn on/off Windows features"
  2. Locate "Internet Information Services"
  3. Click the checkbox and hit "OK".
  4. Restart, then repeat the second approach (services.msc)

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