Xampp running were apache keeps sroping

Are you sure that you have modified the working httpd.conf file?
Do you have another server application running on port 80 or port 85?

i am guessing yes but when i run the xampp-portcheck it just crashes and when i try to run any port checking in cmd it does not show any thing so i thought move the ports and i can get the http://localhost:85 to show data info files not at the moment but could before. and it actually works there is something that i am missing but not sure what httpd.conf its using ofr the ports but this has been modified

i have found the file that it uses by runing the xampp_start,exe which tells me which  httpd.conf  file it is using so i know that its using the one in xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf file  and have checked this and it is defenetly set at 85 for both port addresses
# Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to
# prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses (0.0.0.0)
#
#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
Listen 85

# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
#
ServerName localhost:85
 
si this is set but it still shows 80
I ahve also searched for all other httpd.conf and renamed them so they cannot interfere

There is usually an error.log for apache.  See if you can pull that up and get more detailed information about what is happening.
I have attached a image of all the apache error logs i found but were do i start

Do you have another server application running on port 80 or port 85? have used the cmd port display as well as the xampp port display which keeps crashing, but cannot see any conflict

i am using xampp-win32-1.7.0-installer

have turned off my virus checker for testing and running vista home prem

xamppShot.png

see image error logs
errors.png

so i am starting at a step through to try and resolve this problesm the xampp is still runining so i am going to push on and try now to get eclipse running.
I am going to try and find were eclipse is ties in to apache to see if there are different ports that they are locked into or if eclipse needs the ports set as well going to try and set them both to 85 and see if i can get the debuger goign from there

when i try to load the phpinfo page up from the xampp info page to see what the phpinfo actually is then go to the admin page it stills comes up with http://localhost   instead of http://localhost:85 so this is not getting picked up for starters any ideas

apache started still says [port 80] in the control panel of xampp

am now viiewing with tcpview and monitoring whats happening in the background and have add ed the below image to show what is happening when apache started
apache4948.png

it show that the system is using port 85 but it still shows 80 in the control panell

I think you need to use the host file as well

I have now switched back to port 80 on the httpd.conf  file and completly disabled my protection to see if there is any difference no difference

it will run the apache untill i try to load up the info page then it stops working

below are some error log messages if that helps

[Tue Jun 30 21:40:33 2009] [notice] Child 4696: Child process is running
[Tue Jun 30 21:40:33 2009] [notice] Child 4696: Acquired the start mutex.
[Tue Jun 30 21:40:33 2009] [notice] Child 4696: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Tue Jun 30 21:40:33 2009] [notice] Child 4696: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Tue Jun 30 21:40:33 2009] [notice] Child 4696: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Tue Jun 30 21:41:31 2009] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 255 -- Restarting.
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:20 2009] [warn] pid file C:/xampp/apache/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:20 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:20 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:22 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:22 2009] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:22 2009] [notice] Parent: Created child process 1232
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:24 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:24 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:25 2009] [notice] Child 1232: Child process is running
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:25 2009] [notice] Child 1232: Acquired the start mutex.
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:25 2009] [notice] Child 1232: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:25 2009] [notice] Child 1232: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Tue Jun 30 21:42:25 2009] [notice] Child 1232: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Tue Jun 30 21:43:52 2009] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 255 -- Restarting.
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:03 2009] [warn] pid file C:/xampp/apache/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:03 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:03 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:05 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:05 2009] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:05 2009] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3796
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:07 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:07 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:09 2009] [notice] Child 3796: Child process is running
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:09 2009] [notice] Child 3796: Acquired the start mutex.
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:09 2009] [notice] Child 3796: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:09 2009] [notice] Child 3796: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Tue Jun 30 21:48:09 2009] [notice] Child 3796: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:11 2009] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 255 -- Restarting.
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:51 2009] [warn] pid file C:/xampp/apache/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:51 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:51 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:52 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:52 2009] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:52 2009] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3308
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:54 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:54 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:55 2009] [notice] Child 3308: Child process is running
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:55 2009] [notice] Child 3308: Acquired the start mutex.
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:55 2009] [notice] Child 3308: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:55 2009] [notice] Child 3308: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Tue Jun 30 21:49:55 2009] [notice] Child 3308: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Tue Jun 30 21:55:13 2009] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 255 -- Restarting.

I think you need to use the host file as well

were is this found and what is it?? please

this is a clean the error log and go from scratch what is
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:50 2009] [notice] Child 4268: Starting thread to listen on port 443. supposed to do

[Tue Jun 30 22:02:44 2009] [warn] pid file C:/xampp/apache/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:44 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:44 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:46 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:46 2009] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:46 2009] [notice] Parent: Created child process 4268
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:48 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:48 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:50 2009] [notice] Child 4268: Child process is running
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:50 2009] [notice] Child 4268: Acquired the start mutex.
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:50 2009] [notice] Child 4268: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:50 2009] [notice] Child 4268: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Tue Jun 30 22:02:50 2009] [notice] Child 4268: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Tue Jun 30 22:03:32 2009] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 255 -- Restarting.

You might need a little assistance from someone with more experience with this.  I am a Mac person, use MAMP on Mac OS X.  However, the hosts file usually sits in /etc/hosts.  Has a format like:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1      localhost
255.255.255.255      broadcasthost
::1             localhost

mapping IP to hostname.

well to every ones help i give thanks but have given up on xampp the original idea is i needed eclipes to debug php sites but have now retired xampp and gone over to easyphp load and its working just fine. loaded first time came uo all pages working and now down to try and get eclipes running as it should. so thanks for you help and look for me in the eclipse question area
garry

thanks for you help have given up on xampp gone to easyphp have no more time to muck around thanks any way