Xampp issues on Windows 7 please help!

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Im trying to learn how to use Joomla for a website development module in college and have installed Xampp in order to run Joomla locally.

Basically when I enter the url for the joomla site I have created on my local host it continually tries to connect with no joy.

I have done a little bit of research in order to put this right but I keep comming up against a brick wall. Ive run the Xampp-portcheck.exe as apache fails to launch providing me with the error port 80 is busy.

portcheck comes back clear on port 80 but states 3306 is blocked and when I try to close mysql process it gives me an error message saying that mysql is still running...

I'm scratching my brain here can someone please help!
 
have you checked apache and php are working? to test the webserver....

http://localhost

if there's no response, check the services control panel to see if it's running. if it's stopped, i believe you can check windows event viewer and the logs folder inside the apache install directory

to test if php is working, create a new file test.php in the default document folder.

PHP: 
<?php
phpinfo();
?>

now access that in a browser..

http://localhost/test.php

by looking at that, you can also check if mysql is running.
 
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The process is running but I'm not getting anything.... just failing to connect.... even when mysql is disabled I am unable to start apache
 
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