Open Source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify or enhance. Freeware products can be used free of charge for both personal and professional (commercial use). March 2022 17:56 XAMPP version: 8.2.Freeware programs can be downloaded used free of charge and without any time limitations. While it can be fun to get things to work with putting the pieces together, you can also run into a lot of frustration along the way.įroosh Posts: 135 Joined: 27. Me, personally? I would look to getting a new 64-bit setup, and not be bothered with cobbling together my environment. They are there, but you have to dig a bit to find them. You likely noticed that the downloads for Linux, OS X, and Windows available on Apache Friends are all 64-bit, and that, if you dig enough you can find older 32-bit version of XAMPP under more downloads. Note also that in the sidebar on the PHP download page, it mentions getting PHP for Apache under "Which version do I choose?" Installing that separately may require that you make configuration changes to get it to work with XAMPP, but that is just a guess on my part. I have not installed PHP separately from XAMPP, but if you go to you should be able to find an appropriate 32-bit version to download.
You mentioned that you tried updating from PHP 7.3, 7.4, 8 without luck, but if I am reading your question properly, you want to get a PHP version of 7.4 or higher, and want to know where you can find one? Not really sure I am understanding this fully. You need to review the various log files to research more on the possible cause. The message on the XAMPP Control Panel is indicating that Apache could not be started and little more.
Apache uses PHP, but just because Apache is not starting, it is not necessarily due to PHP.
That said, based on the limited information above, it would appear that Apache is not starting. For starters, I know nothing about setting up XAMPP on Windows 32-bit.