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barney:
I'll recheck the router/firewall settings, but I thimk they are OK.

I'll also check to see if there's an errant localhost setting.  The machine in question has no WAMP installation, and as mentioned in the AV thread, I spent some time making certain it was cleared from the registry - that could be suspect, I suppose.  There's certainly something providing a bias toward port 3306  :-\.

4wd:
I'm as knowledgeable as a bathroom rug when it comes to XAMPP, (or similar), compared to the other guys but I do run my web site on XAMPP, (not portable), on a XP Pro machine.

May I suggest USBwebserver for your portable version ?

I use it for carrying around a copy of my web site and the default ports are 8080 and 3308, it has no trouble firing straight up on my XAMPP machine, (80 and 3306).

If you want to change the ports, it's just the settings\usbwebserver.ini - the relevant port changes are passed to apache and mysql.



If nothing else, maybe you can use it to test whether the machine will run it or another (?)AMPP combo.

EDIT: Otherwise I did notice a server-id parameter in the my.ini files - maybe that needs to change depending on how many iterations of the server you want to run ?

40hz:
@4wd- Thanks for that link! :Thmbsup:

barney:
Hm-m-m ... having trouble posting today, for some reason.

If this turns out to be a duplicate, so be it  ;).

4wd's suggestion paid dividends.  Not only did it work out of the box, so to speak, but it gave me a couple of ideas that might rescue the XAMPP issues.  Had to make some code adjustments - I use a separate .php file with a monstrous if...then structure that recognizes whether I'm connecting to the development box, to a local server, or to the Web - but I expected that, so no surprises or issues.

Basically, all I did was put USBWebserver on the root of the USB stick, create an htdocs folder and point USBWebserver to it.  Prolly took fifteen (15) minutes from download start to using the Web-app on the stick.  (Mighta been faster, but I went to get a beer while it was downloading  :P.)

What's more, in the process of modifying my connection code page, I thimked :eusa_dance: of a couple of things that might address my XAMPP issues ... will try those later tonight.  Thanks to all of you  :-* :Thmbsup: for the assistance.

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