How do I free my port 80 on localhost windows

+1 A:

This is just a guess, but since port 80 is the conventional port for HTTP, you may have a webserver running on your system. Is IIS active?

Thomas L Holaday 2009-04-25 06:27:28

No I dont have an IIS. I did use xampp before and it had worked. I guess some other service is sitting on port 80 and not allowing the re-install of Apache service on it.

2009-04-25 06:29:06

+3 A:

Use TcpView to find the process that listens to the port and close the process.

MMind 2009-04-25 06:28:16

+5 A:

netstat -a -b

Should tell you what program is bound to port 80

Chad Grant 2009-04-25 06:32:16

it just gave me bytes , unicast etc etc. did not give what is bound on port 80. Did I miss anything?

2009-04-25 06:35:47

netstat -a -b sorry

Chad Grant 2009-04-25 06:45:08

Why the hell did you vote it down? You don guys dunno how to use the command line ????

Chad Grant 2009-04-25 06:52:31

+1 A:

Try netstat -anb -p tcp that show ports and processes

MBaas 2009-04-25 06:37:52

0.0.0.0:80 is showing apache.exe - is this fine?

2009-04-25 06:41:46

My xampp Application status shows both apache and mysql state 1 start 1 service 1 But the browser still does not show up the localhost. why so? any pointers? :(

2009-04-25 06:45:50

Sorry, I have a little knowledge on IIS, but none on Apache...

MBaas 2009-04-25 07:15:06

+1 A:

netstat -ano

That will show you the PID of the process that is listening on port 80. After that, open the Task Manager -> Processes tab. From the View -> Select Columns menu, enable the "PID" column, and you will see the name of the process listening on port 80.

Francisco 2009-04-25 06:46:06

A:

Thanks guys it helped me .. Amazingly it was Skype which was using port 80.

Tauseef 2010-03-25 20:19:29

A:

Tauseef, what did you do in order to continue to be able to use skype..?

Thanks

Dan 2010-07-17 14:22:53

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