title: BitNami WordPress installation messes up ApacheFriends XAMPP Control Panel
body: <p>This is not a duplicate of existing posts on this topic but rather a specific case.</p>
  
  <p>I installed the XAMPP 1.8.1-0, started apache and mysql from the xampp control panel,
  and then tried installing WordPress via the XAMPP BitNami library WordPress module.
  Towards the end of the installation however I got this error in XAMPP Control Panel:</p>
  
  <p>16:27:05  [Apache]  You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
  16:27:05  [Apache]  or reconfigure Apache and the Control Panel to listen on a different port
  16:27:05  [Apache]  Problem detected!
  16:27:05  [Apache]  Port 443 in use by "Unable to open process" with PID 5572!
  16:27:05  [Apache]  Apache WILL NOT start without the configured ports free!
  16:27:05  [Apache]  You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
  16:27:05  [Apache]  or reconfigure Apache and the Control Panel to listen on a different port</p>
  
  <p>and when I ckecked with netstat from the XAMPP control panel, I could see that
  netstat shows httpd.exe running on ports 80 and 44, in fact I can load the WordPress
  web pages from the server.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone experienced this? I am thinking that since I moved the old XAMPP installation
  to C:\xampp.old the httpd.exe file located in such directory is being launched
  automatically (somehow windows found it and started it despite the folder rename)?
  I regret that netstat does not show you the full path of the directory from
  which the httpd.exe was launched, which would make things much clearer.</p>
  
  <p>This will probably fix it, but I still won't have understood what had happened,
  especially since, oddly, once I rebooted apache would start from the control panel
  but not mysql.</p>
  
  <p>I will now uninstall both of them, reboot, and reinstall only one XAMPP.</p>
  
  <p>If someone encountered thiese problems and can explain them, please let me know.</p>