Xampp and cms (Joomla, Wordpress and drupal)

[dashby]

I have xampp set up on vista pc, everything running fine on port 80 all the cms have setup fine, I have win 7 laptop xampp running on port 8080 as will not run on 80 as something else grabs the port on boot, can access localhost:8080 no problem but cannot setup any of the above (joomla, wordpress or drupal), I assume this is because they are looking for port 80.

Has anyone set these up on 8080, if so how did you do it?

Thanks in advance for any help

[JonB]

1st - I really think you should fix the port 80 problem.

2nd - You are likely correct about the port address as the scripts create self-referencing URL's to operate. For WordPress, you can probably fix it by changing the URL in Dashbaord >Settings >General, append the port # in the Blog Address and the WordPress address (if set up) or appending it during setup. I can't speak to Joomla or Drupal, but the same advice will 'probably' work.

BUT - you should fix the problem
Quick tips:
Skype? if yes, change the Skype Port
HTTPS.SYS ? In services, change its Startup to Manual
If Apache or WAMP were installed previously, uninstall them.

Search this forum for more tips, Win 7 often shares problems with Vista, as its the same core.

Good Luck

[dashby]

The only thing I can think of without investigating further is that I installed visual studio express 2008 prior to xampp which maybe the reason, I unistalled skype as have only used once so taking up space.

As visual studio installs allsorts including sql files then this is probably the cause but I need this to be on this laptop so by uninstalling then reinstalling probably will not resolve the problem ?

Thanks in advance

[dashby]

I seem to have resolved the problem, got to make sure everything else running fine but have located the problem.

Went into control panel and install/uninstall windows components, I thought I had turned it off but IIS was checked, removed them and xampp now on 80.

Thanks JonB

U seem to be answering all my issues at the moment, dont expect to go on the payroll though

[JonB]

Well, if you can't put me on the payroll, I'll settle for a Heineken or even better a Grolsch.