Installing/configuring Apache first time.

[karlkras]

Hello,
So I installed xampp for a netbeans tutorial. On initial startup of apache there was a port conflict on 443 since Skype was using it so I went about redefining the ports for my xampp apache instance to use a different set of ports (8080 and 4433 respectively).
Restarted the xampp control panel (v3.2.1) and started Apache. Again I get these same conflicting messages:

9:38:43 AM [Apache] Problem detected!
9:38:44 AM [Apache] Port 80 in use by "C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe" with PID 6020!
9:38:44 AM [Apache] Apache WILL NOT start without the configured ports free!
9:38:44 AM [Apache] You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
9:38:44 AM [Apache] or reconfigure Apache and the Control Panel to listen on a different port
9:38:44 AM [Apache] Problem detected!
9:38:44 AM [Apache] Port 443 in use by "C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe" with PID 6020!
9:38:44 AM [Apache] Apache WILL NOT start without the configured ports free!
9:38:44 AM [Apache] You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
9:38:44 AM [Apache] or reconfigure Apache and the Control Panel to listen on a different port
9:38:44 AM [Apache] Attempting to start Apache app...
9:38:44 AM [Apache] Status change detected: running

but apache appears to start up now and is running fine. (I can hit localhost:8080 as would have expected), but wondering why the dashboard still spits out these log errors.
thanks.

[Nobbie]

On initial startup of apache there was a port conflict on 443 since Skype was using it so I went about redefining the ports for my xampp apache instance to use a different set of ports (8080 and 4433 respectively).

Thats just the wrong way. You should have configured Skype *NOT* to use the HTTP Standard Ports (as these are the default for HTTP, not for Skype).

[karlkras]

Hey Nobbie, well that would have been the better solution, but Skype, aka, Microsoft does not make these ports configurable.

[Altrea]

So?
[FGA] solving Port 80 & 443 in use by Skype issue

[karlkras]

well, that's what I get for believing a quick google response on Skype configuration. Yep, problem solved.

[Altrea]

well...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=configure+Skype+ports

my first hit
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA148/ ... ws-desktop