xampp on lab machines

Greg Crum of IT prepared some instructions for setting up xampplite on a flash drive to run in our computer lab. At least one student has successfully implemented it!!
To do it you need to do the following:

Change the ‘ports’ used by your webserver apache for normal and secure serving of http. There is a [...]

Error 500

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If you get an internal server error 500 screen it is a good idea to check the apache server error log. It is located at
xampp\apache\logs\error.log
Open it with your text editor.  At the end is the latest info about the server.  [...]