After Upgrading to PHP Version 7 i get XAMPP Apache Server Error

Question

I have latest Xampp installed and i want to upgrade PHP version to PHP 7. so i downloaded PHP 7 from..
http://windows.php.net/download#php-7.0
VC14 x86 Thread Safe Zip file
After downloading i extracted zip to custom file and replace full php file and folder to
xampp/php with new php file
for php 7 i changed
xamp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp.conf
so my new httpd-xampp.conf is

LoadFile "E:/xamp/php/php7ts.dll"
   LoadFile "E:/xamp/php/libpq.dll"
   LoadModule php7_module "E:/xamp/php/php7apache2_4.dll"

Now When i start Xampp Server its give me Error..

Error:

Apache shutdown unexpectedly. This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies, improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method. Press the Logs button to view error logs and check the Windows Event Viewer for more clues If you need more help, copy and post this entire log window on the forums

I am pretty sure you dont need these 2 lines in the conf file LoadFile "E:/xamp/php/php7ts.dll" & LoadFile "E:/xamp/php/libpq.dll" — RiggsFolly
If you look at the Windows Event Viewer, Apache writes useful info there, even before it gets to opening its own log file — RiggsFolly
check your httpd.conf for port used, by default its 80, it might possible that port is used by other application such as skype, if so then change port to 90 and check with localhost:90 — user3782114
@DavidYue there is no error in error log file. i checked that almost 10 times before post over here — Maher

Malathy Malathy · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-16T18:14:44

My system type was x64-based PC, but the PHP that was installed along with XAMPP was x86 (identified from phpinfo() result). Just by verifying my system type, I was trying to download thread-safe version of x64 and XAMPP failed with same error. Then after downloading x86 thread-safe version, XAMPP server restarted without any issue. Hope this helps someone.

After Upgrading to PHP Version 7 i get XAMPP Apache Server Error

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