In my case, I wanted to keep all of my websites files except for those that were part of the XAMPP installation: dashboard, img, webalizer, xampp, and so forth. I created a backup folder called XAMPP Backup on my desktop and copied all of the files I wanted to keep directly into this folder.
If you select the option to keep your old htdocs folder intact and plan on installing the new version of XAMPP in the same location as the old installation, you will need to move the htdocs folder out of the \xampp\ directory. XAMPP can only be installed into an empty directory. Go ahead and move everything out of the old \xampp\ directory before attempting to install the new version of XAMPP.
I seem to have solved the problem, but in a strange way, so I will post it here in case this helps others.
I asked my university for help in upgrading my symantec, and they sent me a link to their current symantec download. They claimed it would be the version you all recommended. I uninstalled Symantec and re-installed with the new download. I got exactly the same version, judging by the version number.
However, I stopped getting the warnings, even without defining an exception.
My working hypothesis is that I could have avoided the whole mess if I had turned off symantec temporarily before installing xampp.
Security on a localhost may not be a big concern. The recent versions of XAMPP do not set a password for root, the superuser. Go to the file C:\xampp\phpmyadmin\config.inc.php, edit the line $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ; For example to:
Hey friends i am going to discuss with some common error with xampp. i installed xampp in my pc and working with Laravel version 5.8 and php version 7.1.3 so i face a lot issue when trying to run php artisan commands. so i googled and found so many solution but i solve it in a very simple way. so please look below steps to solve it.
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