XAMPP Launcher 1.1 Pre-Release 1

As long as the launcher calls to xampp-control.exe it will not run if the host is already running XAMPP or in the alternative, it will prevent the host from running XAMPP if a session is running from a portable drive.

If a MySQL session is being run on the host as a service, it is possible the portable version may write to the host data base. The problem is not in the launcher but with the XAMPP-Control.

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John, thanks for all those new apps you released during the last few days!

I installed XAMPP in ..\App\XAMPP and most features worked fine when using the launcher, but I cannot start MySql.

There is no problem if I manually execute ..\App\XAMPP\xampp-control.exe.

Another workaround is to use the launcher from it's current position but with ..\App\XAMPP as home directory.

BTW, is there a drawback in using setup_xampp.bat? I found it to take a few seconds the first time it's used on a machine, but every time after that it is done pretty fast. It enables you to place the XAMPP folder anywhere on the disk, not just in the root directory.

And, as they say here FileZilla FTP server will not start without it.

Couldn't the launcher first trigger the setup and after that start the control panel?