Xampp Warning: mysqli_connect(): (HY000/2002): No connection

I was running a php page which was extracting information from different tables and adding rows to a new table (120,000 rows). The page stopped running and changed to a sql error message. I cannot remember exactly what it was, but something about Windows and usually there should be no more than one connection to the server database. After refreshing the page, it worked again for approx. 1 minute and then the same error. I stopped apache and sql. And now I get the following error when trying to access localhost.



Warning: mysqli_connect(): (HY000/2002): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it in C:\xampp\htdocs\csni\login\functions\db.php on line 3

Warning: mysqli::__construct(): (HY000/2002): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it in C:\xampp\htdocs\csni\includes\database_config.php on line 8
Connection failed: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it




MySQL errorlog:


2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.11
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using SSE2 crc32 instructions
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 16M, instances = 1, chunk size = 16M
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Starting crash recovery from checkpoint LSN=12963438225
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: 128 out of 128 rollback segments are active.
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Removed temporary tablespace data file: "ibtmp1"
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file 'C:\xampp\mysql\data\ibtmp1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ...
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: File 'C:\xampp\mysql\data\ibtmp1' size is now 12 MB.
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: 10.4.19 started; log sequence number 12963438234; transaction id 1699199
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from C:\xampp\mysql\data\ib_buffer_pool
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.
2022-02-16 11:59:10 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.