title: Apache (WAMP) issue: “AH00404: Child: Unable to read socket data from parent”
body: <p>Frontend developer desperately trying to get a WAMP running on Windows 7 (Home Premium, 64 bit, SP1). I've tried WAMPSERVER and XAMPP. Starting the Apache service failed on both, returning the exact same critical error in their error.log-files:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>[Thu Dec 13 14:38:56.905257 2012] [mpm_winnt:crit] [pid 4868:tid 280]
    (OS 109)The pipe has been ended. : AH00404: Child: Unable to read
    socket data from parent</p>
    
    <p>[Thu Dec 13 14:38:57.028264 2012] [mpm_winnt:crit] [pid 5100:tid 408]
    AH00427: Parent: child process exited with status 3 -- Aborting.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I've googled for over 2 hours for this problem and have tried several things. Checking/freeing up Port 80, using a different port, turning off MSSE's real-time protection, disabling LMHOSTS Lookup, dozens of reinstalls... All to no avail.</p>
  
  <p>Please help :(</p>