Apache Friends Support Forum

I'm installing XAMPP 1.7.4 and immediately I've got stuck on a question. What does it mean "installing Apache as service"? Do I want to mark any of the "serviced" boxes? I'm planning to use Apache on my local PC to develop and test websites before going live somewhere else.
Grateful for a little help seeing I'm very green at this. OK with html but have never done anything like this before.

Kind regards,
Gloria

Hi Gloria,
Run them as Windows Services means, that they start right after Windows has started, with System Rights (independend of the users you have installed on your Windows System).

Thank you Altrea,

I'll continue with the installation without checking any of the "service boxes" then.

Gloria

Hi,

I'm back again. XAMPP installed correctly. Now to try start and stop from the .bat files. Problems straight away. Got the following reply when trying to start:

"(OS10048) Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. :make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
Apache could not be started"

MySQL started and stopped OK. I have no idea what to do now. Can anybody help, please?

Gloria

Probably port 80 is already in use. This can happen if you have IIS (webserver of Microsoft) installed for example.

You can see this in the command prompt.

Go start -> run -> type cmd in the dialog box

If the command prompt is started type

netstat -o

It should look something like this:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\user>netstat -o

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID
TCP 127.0.0.1:50187 Computer:50188 ESTABLISHED 1596
TCP 127.0.0.1:50188 Computer:50187 ESTABLISHED 1596
TCP 127.0.0.1:50189 Computer:50190 ESTABLISHED 1596
TCP 127.0.0.1:50190 Computer:50189 ESTABLISHED 1596
TCP 127.0.0.1:50512 Computer:50513 ESTABLISHED 3176
TCP 127.0.0.1:50513 Computer:50512 ESTABLISHED 3176
TCP 127.0.0.1:50514 Computer:50515 ESTABLISHED 3176
TCP 127.0.0.1:50515 Computer:50514 ESTABLISHED 3176
C:\Users\user>

You need to look for port 80 (and if needed port 443). If you find it look for the PID. Once you have it you can track it down by starting the task manager. When you identify the process responsible for the blockage you can kill it or shut it down.

DC80 wrote:netstat -o

-o flag is not enough. You need at least -a flag to show all listening ports (only listening on port 80 is relevant).
and to resolve all ports to numeric you should use the -n flag

so i recommend

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netstat -aon

You can filter for :80 too, like so:

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netstat -aon | find ":80"

Thanks for suggestions.
Result for netstat -o didn't show enough.

Result for netstat -aon | find ":80" gave the following:
....
TCP 192.168.1.101:1371 209.85.146.101:80 ESTABLISHED 4624
TCP 192.168.1.101:1382 209.85.146.100:80 ESTABLISHED 4624
TCP 192.168.1.101:1383 74.125.39.100:80 ESTABLISHED 4624
.....

Does this mean that something is already locking up port 80, and what do I do now?
With my limited knowledge, perhaps I shouldn't be doing this......

No, these connections are all okay.

Important are only lines, where the status is LISTENING and the local address (left one) has a :80 like this one (just an example):

TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 284

Do you use Skype sometimes?

OK. It says
0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2536
which means I suppose that something called "2536" is using it. How do I find out what?

- Open your Windows Task manager (shortcut: ctrl + shift + esc)
- switch to processes tab
- show PID column there
- search for PID 2536

You're right on the button.... Skype uses port 80, and I use Skype a lot.

I hope this doesn't mean that I have to uninstall Skype to be able to run Apache?

No, you can configure Skype to not use Port 80 and not use Port 443 (both are required for Apache in the default settings).
I don't know exactly where to find this option in the skype settings, but there must be a checkbox for this.

Thank you very much, Altrea, for all your help. I have learned something new today.
I will probably come back to this forum when I've resolved the Skype issue for I'm sure to have more questions when I start to run Apache.
BB for now and thanks again.
Gloria

You're welcome

For future reference and if the command line netstat is not helpful then you can download and run this nice little app CurrPorts - cports.exe, that requires no installation, to see what is using your ports and is the core app of XAMPP's own xampp-portcheck.exe that has been omitted in 1.7.4 due to a recently departed developer having some copyright code included in the exe file:
Info and download link near the bottom of the page.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html