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I am having a strange problem. When I try to start xampp it fails with message: 

XAMPP: Another web server daemon is already running.

When I tried to find out which server is running using following command:

netstat -tunap | grep LISTEN

result: 

tcp        0      0 127.0.1.1:53        0.0.0.0:*        LISTEN  1955/dnsmasq        
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631       0.0.0.0:*        LISTEN  1262/cupsd        
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:17500       0.0.0.0:*        LISTEN  2353/dropbox       
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:20414       0.0.0.0:*        LISTEN  2297/skype          
tcp6       0      0 :::80                    :::*        LISTEN  1366/apache2    
tcp6       0      0 ::1:631                  :::*        LISTEN  1262/cupsd

Here I see apache is running with, to verify it is installed or not I excuted following command:

dpkg -s apache2

Result:

dpkg-query: package 'apache2' is not installed and no information is available

Every Time I have to kill apache2 before starting xampp, which is very irritating. I am on Ubuntu 12.04,

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Apache2 is a metapackage, you need a specific 'worker' of apache2 (mpm is installed on mine) which then provides the apach2 dependancy if necessary.

dpkg -l|grep apache

Will probably find you what you're trying to find.

You could always just stop it starting up rather than removing it entirely.

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  • can u please tell more about mpm and how to stop it starting up.
    – varnothing
    Sep 28, 2013 at 3:57
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    mpm's just a "style" of worker for apache (how it handles multiple connections), if you want to remove the package, just remove whatever was in the dpkg command above (aptitude remove apache2-mpm for example). You can just turn it off probably by doing 'update-rc.d apache2 disable 2345'.
    – iain
    Sep 28, 2013 at 5:41
  • @iain Heh, didn't know that...
    – kworr
    Oct 3, 2013 at 5:08

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