Windows – AH00428: Apache is continously restarting itself exiting with status 255

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Does anyone have an idea why my Apache instance is constantly restarting itself?

I see the following errors in the logs:

[mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 2592:tid 420] AH00428: Parent: child process 1976 exited with status 255 — Restarting.

[mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 2592:tid 420] AH00428: Parent: child process 1976 exited with status 255 -- Restarting.
[mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 2592:tid 420] AH00455: Apache/2.4.25 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.0.2j configured -- resuming normal operations
[core:notice] [pid 2592:tid 420] AH00094: Command line: 'C:\\Apache24\\bin\\httpd.exe -d C:/Apache24'
[mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 2592:tid 420] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 2532
[mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 2532:tid 340] AH00354: Child: Starting 64 worker threads.

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Any help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Screen captures showing mod_proxy module and mod_proxy being loaded from httpd.conf:

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Best Answer

As you error says:

"Faulting application path: C\Apache24/bin/httpd.exe"

"Faulting module path: C:\Apache24\modules\mod_proxy.so"

Are you sure they are there?

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