apache service starts/stops

[mattwal]

Hello everyone,

 

I am running a AMD athlon 64 processor 3400 1.8GHz window box with 896 MB of RAM On Windows xp home VEr: 2002 sp2

 

I have previosly install wampserver and it was working fine untill recently. the apache service starts then stops im

meditaly. I reseached all other options from the wampserver forum such skype/firewall and anything related to port 80 issue.

 

On that note I downloaded apache_2.2.11-win32-x86-no_ssl and installed it with the same problem of the apache service not starting or stopping.

 

I tried netstat with the following result:

 

C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Owner.YOUR-F78BF48CE2>netstat -n

Active Connections

  Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1251         127.0.0.1:1252         ESTABLISHED
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1252         127.0.0.1:1251         ESTABLISHED
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1253         127.0.0.1:1254         ESTABLISHED
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1254         127.0.0.1:1253         ESTABLISHED

 

I do know know what I am looking for other than anything with the port 80 in it?

 

The apache error log and wamp error log display the same thing:

 

Starting the Apache2.2 service
The Apache2.2 service is running.
] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) configured -- resuming normal operations
[sat Apr 04 00:15:33 2009] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[sat Apr 04 00:15:33 2009] [notice] Parent: Created child process 388
[sat Apr 04 00:15:34 2009] [notice] Child 388: Child process is running
[sat Apr 04 00:15:34 2009] [crit] (OS 10022)An invalid argument was supplied.  : Child 388: setup_inherited_listeners(), WSASocket failed to open the inherited socket.
[sat Apr 04 00:15:34 2009] [crit] Parent: child process exited with status 3 -- Aborting.
[sat Apr 04 00:15:56 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) configured -- resuming normal 

 

on another post on this site I've tried telneting localhost with this result:

telnet 127.0.01 80

C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Owner.YOUR-F78BF48CE2>telnet 127.0.0.1 80
Connecting To 127.0.0.1...Could not open connection to the host, on port 80: Con
nect failed

 

I have even tried tried changing the listening port to 50123 and still nothing.

 

All i can think of is something is preventing the service to start and maintain running... From here I have no clue on what to look for or check for. Any help would be greatly appreciated...