XAMPP installation on Win 8.1 with UAC Warning

There are two things you need to check: Ensure that your user account has administrator privilege. Disable UAC (User Account Control) as it restricts certain administrative function needed to run a web server. To ensure that your user account has administrator privilege, run lusrmgr.msc from the Windows Start > Run menu to bring up the Local Users and … Read more

How to solve “Error: MySQL shutdown unexpectedly”?

IMPORTANT: do NOT delete ibdata1 file. You could destroy all your databases. Instead, first try using the MySQL backup folder which is included with XAMPP. So do next steps: Rename folder mysql/data to mysql/data_old Make a copy of mysql/backup folder and name it as mysql/data Copy all your database folders from mysql/data_old into mysql/data (except … Read more

Xampp Access Forbidden php

Try with this code below, add it in your virtual host config. Add this lines to httpd-vhosts.conf file: I fixed the same issue by this way. Hope it helps. Note: after changes please test it in incognito because you redirected by cache

“Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed” with phpMyAdmin in XAMPP

Open phpMyAdmin in a browser and log in as root. Create a database called phpmyadmin Create a user called pma and set the “host” to the hostname or IP address of your web server (if the web server and MySQL are on the same box use localhost), make a note of the password, and grant the new user full … Read more