
I don't have enough reputation to comment yet, but, to add to ssharma's answer:Īfter you copy your htdocs folder to a safe place, just export your databases from PHPmyadmin. NOTE: there are two directories to be updated with new version of files, namely php sub-directory and apache/bin sub-directory, inside XAMPP installation. This is necessary because by XAMPP uses Apache version 2.2 and the files with the 2 prefix are built for Apache 2.0, so you must take the files build for the newer version (which has a different plugin interface) and rename them in the filenames XAMPP expects.


Realizing that my answer helped couple of users, here is the edit from original link:Įdit: First of all Always backup your data. You can go through the following link as it helped me, should work for you as well.
