EasyPHP on 64 bit Windows 7: How to fix Apache and MySQL problem

September 20th, 2009

EasyPHP on Windows 7

EasyPHP on Windows 7


Apache

I am accustomed in using EasyPHP on a Windows platform. Installation, running, and configuring it is always a breeze (on Windows XP that is). Recently I’ve installed Windows 7 RTM on my MSI notebook and installed EasyPHP 5.3.0, though the Installation goes flawlessly but then when I launch the stack software, Apache wouldn’t start.

I turned off the firewall but no luck. So I did a search on google, again no luck with Windows 7 specific solution but I found one for Windows Vista. I tried it anyway, then BAM! It worked! I finally got Apache to start, tried opening the local default web and it worked perfectly. Here’s the error message and how to fix it:

Apache cannot be runned: another Web server use the Web port
or port is blocked by firewall.
  1. Click the EasyPHP icon beside “Apache” button.
  2. Click “Configure” then click “EasyPHP“.
  3. Uncheck “Check server’s TCP port before starting” then click “Apply” button and then “Close” button.
  4. Click “Apache” button and then click “Start“.

That would fix the “Apache cannot be runned…” problem.

MySQL

Got the Apache server to work but after I closed EasyPHP and run it again, I’m hit with another error message:

Unexpected end of MySql... See log file?

Now it’s from MySQL. After a few head scratching and inspection. And then it hit me! I figure that must be a permission problem. So I changed my user’s permission for the EasyPHP directory and Viola! MySQL finally start. Solved the MySQL problem. Here’s what I did:

  1. Go to “Computer“, open/view Drive C, then double click “Program Files (x86)“.
  2. Right click on “EasyPHP5.3.0” folder then click “Properties“.
  3. On “Security” tab click “Edit…” button.
  4. Select the user that you are currently using.
  5. Under “Permissions for Users” box, tick “Full control” on “Allow” column.
  6. And then click “OK” button to apply the changes.

Now you’ll be able to start MySQL server by clicking “MySQL” button on EasyPHP dialog and then click “Start“.

Hope this helps!

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47 Responses to “EasyPHP on 64 bit Windows 7: How to fix Apache and MySQL problem”

  1. Xixixao says:
    October 28, 2009 at 4:23 am

    Thanks a lot man, saved my time!

  2. fre says:
    November 3, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    Thanks, works like a charm!

  3. mimim says:
    November 12, 2009 at 2:04 am

    WOW thanks you so much, i hate windows for that, too much restrictions,
    thanks again for the trick

  4. Rollaz says:
    November 12, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    Big thanks! worked for me too ;)

  5. loki says:
    November 16, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    thanks man, this really works!

  6. Ramin Firooz says:
    November 19, 2009 at 3:57 am

    I translated this article into Farsi (Persian) and published in my blog ( http://bit.ly/EW1iG )
    Thank You :)

  7. Sir No Bull says:
    November 19, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    Mimim:

    How is it a Windows problem, when one has to set proper directory rights? Wouldn’t Unix / Linux barf if you didn’t allow the user account to have proper access to the directory structure.

    I actually have been using all flavours of Windows, and did not believe the first reports about Windows 7 (being a great OS). Well, it is, specially when you go to Professional and above - worth ever penny. I believe that Apple being hit by Microsoft’s Windows 7, and by Google’s Android is in a big trouble… IMHO.

  8. Maicon says:
    November 26, 2009 at 12:38 pm

    Thanks man. It Works in Windows Vista 64bits too.

  9. alin says:
    November 29, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    OMG! Thanks! Very much!

  10. Joe says:
    November 30, 2009 at 10:51 am

    Got it up and running on my 64 bit..

    But I can’t view my site locally. I get a “The Connection was Reset”
    Any ideas?

  11. Peter says:
    December 1, 2009 at 7:37 am

    Thank you so much! Will spread the word!

  12. Rennella Cristian says:
    December 5, 2009 at 5:29 am

    Thanks you a LOT!!! THANKS IT WORKS PERFECT for Windows Vista!!! THANKS!

  13. beni says:
    December 5, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    thanks man

  14. Daniel says:
    December 8, 2009 at 9:22 am

    Tnx man it´s working!!!

  15. Mogyi says:
    December 10, 2009 at 2:04 am

    Big tnx it´s working!!!

  16. linda says:
    December 10, 2009 at 2:43 am

    Solved this just by running as administrator. Right click programme icon in the start menu, under the short cut tab select advanced, put a tick in the run as administrator, go through the usual administrator confirm and done and dusted.

  17. KK says:
    December 17, 2009 at 9:49 pm

    Thanks Linda - this did the trick for me too… just run as administrator. Didn’t have to do any other changes!

  18. huevos says:
    December 20, 2009 at 11:00 am

    thank you!
    worked for me on windows vista.

  19. Paul says:
    December 23, 2009 at 5:41 am

    Thanks man!!!!Very good work

  20. Paula says:
    December 24, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    Thank you so much, works great!!

  21. serhanco says:
    December 30, 2009 at 11:16 am

    Dude, thank you so very very much! Always keep up the good work man…

  22. Ibraim says:
    January 3, 2010 at 12:32 am

    Thank you for your help. -> Agradeço por sua ajuda!

    The problem was the permissions.

  23. Ibraim says:
    January 3, 2010 at 1:00 am

    My system is 32bits and had the problem in MySQL.

  24. kang says:
    January 6, 2010 at 11:52 am

    thanks, it’s really help me.

  25. Emmanuel says:
    January 7, 2010 at 5:17 pm

    Thanks, worked great !

  26. IVI-R3za.M says:
    January 9, 2010 at 4:31 pm

    thank you man! very nice help

  27. Ali says:
    January 11, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    Hey bro,
    Thank you so much.

  28. WebGuy says:
    January 19, 2010 at 3:12 pm

    Saved my life man… thanks!

  29. Me says:
    February 3, 2010 at 4:58 am

    Thank you!

  30. Turan says:
    February 4, 2010 at 1:04 pm

    it works great! thanks for sharing

  31. Jujubee says:
    February 11, 2010 at 6:15 am

    awesome thanks so much. I thought I was going crazy.

  32. Tee says:
    February 11, 2010 at 6:13 pm

    Incredilbe :) Thank you soooo much!
    Finally i can use my win7 without switching back to xp for easyphp
    Thanks :)

  33. Annabel says:
    February 17, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    Thanks a lot! 1 hour searched before finding solution! (excuse my english language, i’m a french new webmaster…)

  34. X says:
    February 19, 2010 at 6:20 pm

    You saved my life, man. Many thanks!

  35. igor says:
    February 24, 2010 at 5:10 am

    Thank’s bro!!!

  36. John S. says:
    March 4, 2010 at 10:08 pm

    I really appreciate this wonderful posting you have given for us. I confirm this is beneficial for most people.

  37. Thibaut says:
    March 30, 2010 at 8:07 pm

    Nothing else to say… Thanks buddy!!!!

  38. Thibaut says:
    March 31, 2010 at 12:03 am

    Here is what I did :
    uninstall easyphp.
    click right on “EasyPHP-5.3.2-setup.exe” and => ” execute as an administrator”.
    It worked perfectly!
    by

  39. Lars-Bo Jensen says:
    April 7, 2010 at 5:32 pm

    Thanks for the guide, helped me solving a problem that have bothered me for some time now.

  40. Elena says:
    April 22, 2010 at 2:00 am

    Thank You! It helped!

  41. Paul J says:
    April 24, 2010 at 10:13 pm

    Thanks! Worked great.

  42. Samson Joel says:
    April 30, 2010 at 2:55 pm

    Asante sana….Thanks very much…………

  43. Vinny says:
    May 17, 2010 at 8:16 am

    Excellent post, saved me a ton of time.

  44. Reese says:
    May 22, 2010 at 4:05 pm

    Thank you!

  45. felipe says:
    June 19, 2010 at 11:27 am

    muito obrigado
    thanks guy

  46. lolamai says:
    July 17, 2010 at 4:00 pm

    thank you! it works

  47. Agnes says:
    August 9, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    This was not enough to work for me
    Am on Windows 7 integral 64 bits

    Bur I found here the answer
    http://www.cameroncooke.com/2009/01/25/windows-7-uses-port-80-and-makes-it-impossible-to-install-apache-solution/

    Fred :
    1. Get pid that is listening port 80: netstat -nao | find “:80″
    2. Open task manager, go to processes tab and check “PID” on menu/view/Select Columns…. then you can find out the progress with that pid.
    3. If it is a normal application or IIS, just disable or uninstall it.
    4. If it is System progress(PID 4), you need to disable HTTP.sys driver which is started on demand by other service, such as Windows Remote Management/Print Spooler on Windows 2008 or Windows 7. there is two way to disable it:
    a.
    1) Go to device manager, select “show hidden devices” from menu/view, go to “Non-Plug and Play Driver”/HTTP, double click it to disable it (and disable or manual some services depended on it).
    2) Reboot and use netstat -nao | find “:80″ to check no 80 is used.
    b.
    1) Launch RegEdit
    2) Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP
    3) Change the value of ’start’ to 4 (disabled)
    4) Re-boot your computer

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