XAMPP problem ...

the_monkey

Hi
I have installed XAMPP (1.7.4) on my Win 7 64bit and was working fine, but now I cannot start Apache, I get the below when trying to start Apache:

Apache 2 is starting ...
(OS 10013)An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its acces
s permissions.  : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
Apache konnte nicht gestartet werden
Apache could not be started
Press any key to continue . . .

As i said this was working ok last night, I have done a netstat -a to check port 80, and it is "listening" so free , so there is no conflict.



Only thing I did since last night was install MS SQL server 2008 , possible that this is causing a conflict ? although I did previously have MSSQL 2008 + XAMPP working fine on Vista.


Any help appreciated

Strange when I checked what PID was using port 80 it said 4, i checked this PID and it is "System" ??




cheers

Webmonkey

Strange question, but do you have Skype running?

the_monkey

I don't actually, not even installed, i realise Skype can use port 80,

I have temporarily solved it by changing the Apache port to 78 through the http.conf file.


is this a rare enough port ? should i go for a higher number ? like 8888 ??

Webmonkey

Clearly something is listening on port 80 then. Check what's running.

the_monkey

Webmonkey wrote: »

Clearly something is listening on port 80 then. Check what's running.

yeah strange thing is it has a PID of 4, and when i looked it up all it says is "System" ??


weird.

Tobias Greeshman

You could run netstat to see if something is listening on port 80.

If that doesn't throw up anything then you could give SysInternals ProcessExplorer, that should have something similar to netstat. I know it gives the ability to search for open handles, etc, so should surely search on TCP connections as well.