Comments on: Installing XAMPP Lite on a Portable Storage device

By: Renee

Renee — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:20:45 +0000

Well, I give up. I can’t even get the program downloaded. I’ve tried Imapp lite, regular, self-extracting, and the .zip file. I’ve tried using direct, using mirrors, going straight for the source and I always get the message that “Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.” I do accept cookies, so don’t understand what the problem is. I even downloaded an older version from another website, but when I clicked on the zip/exe file I was told “Error – does not appear to be a valid archive.” What the heck am I doing wrong?

Yes, I have Vista SP2, but since I haven’t even loaded anything yet, figure I’m not dealing with the next set of problems detailed in the documentation re permissions.

Then I got confused when Apache’s site said “If you choose a root directory “C:\” as target, you must not start “setup_xampp.bat”. No other websites, including this one, say any such thing. What are we supposed to use then? Jeez, if I can’t even get this far, I can’t wait until I download Wordpress…

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:34:27 +0000

Very helpful, runs perfectly on my external HD.
Thank You, that´s a great tutorial!!!

By: webmaster

webmaster — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:06:25 +0000

hi Dan
I’ve no idea why you would get permission denied. Are you using Windows Vista? If you are, maybe you an execute the setup in WinXP mode? Sorry, not much help here.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:34:56 +0000

when i tried to run the setup file it i get an error message saying that permission was denied. can anyone help me? here is a screen shot: http://grab.by/pgS

email me at wraithstk@gmail.com

By: fran

fran — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:25:07 +0000

Fixed error “Only one usage of each socket address is normally permitted”:

I found i had more than one instance of apache.exe running in memory even though the xampp control panel showed it was off. I dont run a service unless it doesnt work – ie standalone. Hit ctrl-alt-esc – under processes tab click image name to order by name, look for any apache.exe programs – end them all and retry – should sort you out

when i doubt – restart. if still in doubt, google it.

By: webmaster

webmaster — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:47:17 +0000

Hi Rob

That means that you have another program that is using Port 80 which is clashing with xampp. You can either modify xampp to run on another port or you can find what is the other program that is using Port 80.

Typically Port 80 is used by web servers. Its highly likely you have Microsoft IIS turned on in your Windows installation. You can check if this is so by typing “http://localhost/” into your browser to see if other webserver services are runing on your machine.

Check out this blog on how to change the default port on XAMPP if you prefer to take this route. http://veerasundar.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-change-xampp-server-port/

You can check out this XAMPP faq for more actions you can take.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/faq-xampp-windows.html#nostart

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:25:28 +0000

I’ve followed your directions on this page for installing xampplite on a portable device but when trying to start apache I get the following error: ‘Only one usage of each socket address is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down. Unable to open logs.’
What can I do?

By: webmaster

webmaster — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:04:36 +0000

Hi Loid, yes, it works the same way.

By: loid manuel

loid manuel — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:39:37 +0000

can i install xampplite on my 4gb USB FlashDrive? thanks..

By: webmaster

webmaster — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:13:06 +0000

Hi Michael, what I do is to standardize the drive letters, e.g. i just make sure all the different computers i work on assign the ‘M:’ drive letter to my maxtor external hdd.

this is probably the easiest approach, just assign the letter you want in “Disk Management” under “Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management”