XAMPP in Program Files directory

Question

Important! Because an activated User Account Control (UAC) on your system some functions of XAMPP are possibly restricted. With UAC please avoid to intall XAMPP to C:\Program Files (missing write permissions). Or deactivate UAC with msconfig after this setup.

I was searching for any farther information, but nothing found. Does anybody know what exact problems might I have if I would install XAMPP on Program Files with enabled UAC (especially on Windows 8/8.1)?

Answer 1

Apache2, for example needs write access, which wont be granted by Windows for any program trying to write into the program files directory. Obviously for security reasons, otherwise a program could manipulate other programs. I don't know exactly, why Apache needs write access, but I think it is because of the log files, which are contained in some sub-directories of the installation