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Multiple XAMPP installations simultaneously on Windows 11

We need to keep the following in mind while having multiple installations of XAMPP in windows 11: To run multiple XAMPP instances on Windows, we must change the default ports for the Apache and MySQL services in each additional installation. This prevents port conflicts, which would stop the services from starting correctly.  So, we will need to change the following ports: Apache (HTTP): The default is port 80. We need to change this to a new, unused port like 8080 Apache (HTTPS/SSL): The default is port 443. We need to  change this to a new port, such as 444. MySQL: The default is port 3306. We need to change this to a new port, such as 3307 There are few additional steps, which are listed in sequence below: 1. Installing to separate folders e.g., XAMPP version 8.0 in the folder C:\ProgramFiles\xampp8.0 and XAMPP version 8.2 in the folder C:\ProgramFiles\xampp8.2 (Note: C:\ProgramFiles is a user created folder with write permission for the user, and not the C:\Progra...