XAMMP-- Apache not running, port 80 already in use.

[mkdowning]

Okay, so I've seen similar questions on here, but nothing that helped me out, so I'm sorry ahead of time if this question has already been answered.
I have installed Xampp 1.7.3 on my computer, to locally run Joomla.
I have only gotten Xampp to run right once, and I can't really tell what the difference is. The problem is, that port 80 is already occupied by a system process. I have tried several ways already to free up this port, to no avail. I have disabled IIS, among other things, I don't have Skype installed, and I've tried it with every other program closed I could possibly. I even tried changing the port number in the config files to something that's not in use, and that hasn't worked either. This is just effecting the Apache part of Xampp, the MySQL part is running fine, even though I obviously can't use it.

Any ideas? I am running Windows 7 as well by the way. Thanks for any help!

[thuyquai]

You could run XAMPP and port-check it to see what process is using port 80

[mkdowning]

It just says "System". But, I did manage to fix this, and since this is a common problem, I will share. Port 80 on windows 7 is occupied by a program called "World Wide Web Publishing Service". Not sure what it does, don't really care either, I've had it turned off for awhile now and nothing dire has happened. So, to turn this off, right click on "computer", click on "manage", click on "service & applications", then click on "services", and then scroll down to "world wide web publishing service". Right click on it, and tell it to "stop"! This fixed my problem INSTANTLY!!

[MC10]

I think that's just a problem with your computer; mine is also running Windows 7 and it runs XAMPP perfectly fine without messing around with port 80.

[Znote]

Worked out of the box on my Windows 7 computer as well.

[jimmmy]

mkdowning you are the man! Thanks for sharing, this solved my problem instantly after hours of trawling google.

(I am on windows 7, too btw)

Jimmy

[MC10]

That meant that IIS wasn't disabled completely.

[vishal.wadkar86]

Hi Guys,

Even I am on Windows 7 machine. But I had not faced this problem before. But now when I stopped that WWW Publishing service Apache worked like a charm.

Thanks a lot!

R