XAMPP Servers not starting in Macos Sierra

Question

I have installed XAMPP in OS EL Captian, it works fine there. When i upgrade my os to macos Sierra, it throws the following error messages in XAMPP control panel...

Restarting all servers...

Starting MySQL Database...
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/mysql/scripts/ctl.sh : mysql started at port 3306

Starting Apache Web Server...
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh : httpd started
Starting ProFTPD...

Exit code: 8

Stdout:

Checking syntax of configuration file proftpd config test fails, aborting

Stderr:

MM-SHANMUGAM-SA.local proftpd[19886]: warning: unable to determine IP address of 'MM-SHANMUGAM-SA.local'

MM-SHANMUGAM-SA.local proftpd[19886]: error: no valid servers configured

MM-SHANMUGAM-SA.local proftpd[19886]: Fatal: error processing configuration file '/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/proftpd.conf'

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I didn't get the error though.

With me the problem was that Apache was already running on macOS itself so it couldn't start from XAMPP. I guess the update to Sierra must have started it.

I fixed the problem by stopping Apache by running sudo apachectl stop on the Terminal.