Laragon 8 Doesn't Auto Started in Windows Server 2019 after Server Restarted (without user logon)

[JH-Ang]

First of all, I paid for the lifetime license for $149.

As mentioned in title, every time I restarted my server (Windows Server 2019), I do not want to logon to boot the Laragon 8.
Is there any solution? Or are there any docs I missed?

is this the only way by making apache into service?:
#370

[leokhoa]

@JH-Ang :

You can use Task Scheduler. Make sure to check:

1. Run whether user is logged on or not
2. Run with highest privileges

Ref:
#1118 (reply in thread)

[JH-Ang]

Tested that as well, the laragon.exe is running but the httpd.exe and mysqld.exe are not running.

[JH-Ang]

For now, I have temporarily set up the Laragon's httpd.exe as a Windows service. However, this is definitely not a proper solution, as I noticed that the Laragon GUI does not recognize it as active even when httpd.exe is running as a service.

Please kindly advise on the proper solution.

[leokhoa]

@JH-Ang Since laragon.exe starts but both httpd.exe and mysqld.exe don't, this is likely related to Laragon starting in the non-interactive Task Scheduler session.
Please make sure:

• Let Task Scheduler start laragon.exe only.
• Keep Start All automatically enabled in Laragon.
• In Task Scheduler, use "Run whether user is logged on or not" and 'Run with highest privileges".

[JH-Ang]

Yes, I already did that as suggested in other discussions. However, it still requires me to log in to the server in order for Laragon to start the httpd.exe and mysql.exe services. The laragon.exe process does run in the background when the server is restarted but httpd.exe and mysql.exe don't.
Yes, I already purchase the lifetime license key.
Please kindly advise.

[leokhoa]

@JH-Ang : Thank you for the detailed information.
All seems correct.

Can you uncheck "Run Laragon when Windows starts"?

From my view, this will run Laragon first so the task scheduler can't run properly (because Laragon only allow 1 instance of the same path at a time)

If everything is fine, you should see Laragon, Apache and MySQL are running as a background processes: