Problem with Xampp server

[harishbayyavarapu]

I have a problem running Xampp server.
harish@harish-laptop:~$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.7.1...
XAMPP: Another web server daemon is already running.
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...
XAMPP for Linux started.

I dont understand why another webserver is running. I didnt install any apache.
Please tell me to check whether any server is running.

[jwf]

Well, you could try to display what processes are running. At a terminal command line:

 sudo ps -A

or as most servers "listen" to ports then you could run:

 sudo netstat -tunap | grep LISTEN

The results here may shed some light on what server may be operational.

Also, your output shows "XAMPP for Linux started.".
Does it not perform as expected?

[harishbayyavarapu]

This is the output of the second above command
harish@harish-laptop:~$ sudo netstat -tunap | grep LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3141/cupsd
tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 3317/apache2
tcp6 0 0 ::1:631 :::* LISTEN 3141/cupsd

I searched on google to stop the apache server
This is the command
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
Which is useful for me to stop the already running apache server.
Now i am able to run my xampp server. Thanks for the help.. !!