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Posted by Christopher Yammine
Christopher Yammine
1,706 Points

I accidentally hit "Allow" in the Windows Firewall popup and now my Apache doesn't start properly.

Discussion title. I hit allow and now Apache has an error every time I start it up. Every other module is fine though.

Edit: This is while using XAMPP.

2 Answers

Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points
Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points

This will be a little tricky.

(This is for Windows 8, but it should be mostly the same in Windows 7 / Vista) Press start and search for "Windows Firewall". On the left, click the link "Allow an app or feature through Windows Firewall" (It maybe be called something slightly different). Scroll through the list until you find the program you want to change and change it back to what you want.

I hope this helps, lol.

Christopher Yammine
Christopher Yammine
1,706 Points
Christopher Yammine
Christopher Yammine
1,706 Points

Figured it out. I tried everything you suggested as well as resetting my firewall defaults after that failed, but to no avail.

It turns out Pando Media Booster was using the same port Apache is configured to run on so I just disabled PMB and everything runs gravy.

Thanks!