XAMPP PORT 80 BUSY

[vish_op]

Dear All,
I am using XAMPP in windows xp service pack 2.I want to use mysql gui tools with that.
Anyhow apache sever is not starting.always it gets the message busy port 80.

How to solve this.Please help to resolve.

Thanks in advance.

Thank you,
Vishaka

[bandave]

Hi,
I do not have Skype on my computer, but I am having the same issue. I have checked port 80 and it is listening to PID 4, but there is not PID 4 in task manager.
I just re-installed it about 15 minutes ago because of this issue.

What other steps could I take to get my Apache server running?

Thanks in advance.

[hackattack142]

Typically the System process uses PID 4. The common blocking service usually ends up being the World Wide Publishing service. Go to your Windows Services (Start > Run > services.msc), see if there is a 'World Wide Publishing' service, right-click it to get the Properties, click 'Stop' if it is running, change it from 'Automatic' to 'Disabled', then click okay.

You can see all the processes in your Task Manager by checking the 'Show processes from all users' box at the bottom of the 'Processes' tab.

[Altrea]

Commonly Skype will not identify with HTTP.sys PID 4 but a random PID of it's own process.