*** New XAMPP CONTROL PANEL Version 3 ***

[hackattack142]

You are correct, I made the bad assumption that when the service buttons were disabled, the services did not already exist on the system. I will add the missing checks in the next iteration of the control panel but that work around will be fine in the meantime.

In regard to the privileges stuff in most cases, I think it will just bring up the UAC dialog or equivalent if it needs it. I do not know about any specific cases where it will crash yet if lacking those privileges.At the same time, I do not want to force Admin by other means because some people may not require Services and need it/be able to get it.

[hackattack142]

I have posted a new CP version (3.1.0 Beta 7). This is newer than the one included in XAMPP 1.8.1.

You can view the changelog and download it from here: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=48932

If you find any bugs or have any feedback, use this thread not that one.

[dmsclz]

Hello,

I just came here and read some posts of the last months...
hackattack, you did a very great job, especially if this was really your first experience with delphi!
I like the way you developed the application: It is small, smart and very helpful.

Happy coding & kind regards,
Steffen Strueber

[DungDemo]

Configuration of Control panel/ Service and Port settting not work

[hackattack142]

Hello,

Could you provide which version of the Control Panel you are using and describe what you did and what you are trying to do

[Ikonn]

It is possible to start XAMPP in tray on windows system?

[hackattack142]

Hello,

Not currently. I suspect that would not be a difficult addition though and will add it to my list as an option.

In the meantime, you can 'X' out of the Control Panel and it will minimize to the tray where you can control it.

[jmichae3]

issue with xampp control panel 3.0.12 trying to access Norton.
Norton is blocking the xampp-control.exe because it is trying to
access ccsvchost.exe and norton isn't allowing it (possibly they upgraded an API you were using?). either Apache Friends developers need to contact Symantec's Engineering Dept. (my guess) about this, or this needs to stop and you just need to start using the standard Service Control Manager stuff to manage the services is also my guess and this should be fine.

but right now,I am getting regular logged entries in my norton history. it seems xampp-control.exe is polling...

the xampp control panel also randomly displays the red X next to the services when they are running fine.

[hackattack142]

Hello,

My guess is that Norton does not like it when the control panel scans over its processes while it is looking for/monitoring the processes associated with XAMPP. It looks at each processes name and grabs their image path to compare it against XAMPP's path (can not do simple name matching to support non-XAMPP processes or multiple XAMPP installations) to find witch running processes belong to that XAMPP instance. I have not found a better way to find/monitor the XAMPP processes yet but I am still looking into it. It does poll the process list to find when XAMPP processes have started/stopped.

As for the red 'X', that does not mean anything is wrong. A red 'X' means you are running the module as a standalone application. A green check means you are running the module as a Windows Service. You can run them in either mode depending on your needs.

Also, feel free to grab the latest CP from the link in my signature.

[hackattack142]

A new version of the control panel is available (3.2.0).

I have fixed all bugs that I know about and reproduced. Most of the changes are internal but I did sneak in a few feature requests. See the release post for a full list of changes.

Let me know if there are any issues and it is available from the link in my signature as usual.