Succeeded installing but could not start apache 2 4 on my windows 7 system

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I am attempting to install and run apache 2 4 on my windows 7 system I went to the apache 2 4 bin directory and ran the following  Note  I opened the cmd window as administrator  C  Apache24 bin httpd exe -k install  Its output was as follows    Installing the Apache2 4 service The Apache2 4 service is successfully installed  Testing httpd conf     Errors reported here must be corrected before the service can be started   OS 10013 An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its acces s permissions     AH00072  make sock  could not bind to address      80  OS 10013 An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its acces s permissions     AH00072  make sock  could not bind to address 0 0 0 0 80 AH00451  no listening sockets available  shutting down AH00015  Unable to open log   So it installed apache 2 4 as a service but it could not be started  It seems like the localhost port 80 is being used  Is this what       80  means   I then stopped both the the apache 2 0 service which I had left running and the mysql service  hoping stopping one of them might free up localhost port 80   I also run netstat -o to see if port 80 is being used  It was not   But  I then found that a process was using the above socket it is a process that is listening on the above socket   TCP         80                User-PC 0              LISTENING       4   I then ran tasklist and found out that System is using pid 4  4 is under the pid column  System                           4 Services                   0        544 K   Finally  from the failed attempt to start the service  I got an error which was recorded in windows systems events   Log Name       System Source         Service Control Manager Date           2 21 2013 1 58 03 PM Event ID       7024 Task Category  None Level          Error Keywords       Classic User           N A Computer       User-PC Description  The Apache2 4 service terminated with service-specific error Incorrect function   Event Xml   lt Event xmlns  http   schemas microsoft com win 2004 08 events event  gt     lt System gt       lt Provider Name  Service Control Manager  Guid   555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4   EventSourceName  Service Control Manager    gt       lt EventID Qualifiers  49152  gt 7024 lt  EventID gt       lt Version gt 0 lt  Version gt       lt Level gt 2 lt  Level gt       lt Task gt 0 lt  Task gt       lt Opcode gt 0 lt  Opcode gt       lt Keywords gt 0x8080000000000000 lt  Keywords gt       lt TimeCreated SystemTime  2013-02-21T18 58 03 723988900Z    gt       lt EventRecordID gt 87756 lt  EventRecordID gt       lt Correlation   gt       lt Execution ProcessID  560  ThreadID  7596    gt       lt Channel gt System lt  Channel gt       lt Computer gt User-PC lt  Computer gt       lt Security   gt     lt  System gt     lt EventData gt       lt Data Name  param1  gt Apache2 4 lt  Data gt       lt Data Name  param2  gt   1 lt  Data gt     lt  EventData gt   lt  Event gt    The error from the attempt to start says that beacause of lack of access  make-sock could not bind to sockets which to me looked like localhost port 80  For example      OS 10013 An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its acces     s permissions     AH00072  make sock  could not bind to address      80   Can anyone tell what I am doing wrong

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This may be because of shortage in physical RAM   Check minimum system requirements in the docs and try to close unnecessary programs if possible

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Port 80 maybe used by Microsoft HTTPAPI  Try to stop the following service    Web Deployment Agent Service   SQL Server Reporting Service   SQL Server VSS Writer

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I have the same problem too  after upgrading win7 to win10  then I check services msc and found  World Wide Web Publishing Service  was running automatically by default  So then I disabled it  and running the Apache service again

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if you are using windows os and believe that skype is not the suspect  then you might want to check the task manager and check the  Show processes from all users  and make sure that there is NO entry for httpd exe  Otherwise  end its process  That solves my problem

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I solved this issue finally  it was because of some systems like skype and system processes take that port 80  you can make check using netstat -ao for port 80  Kindly find the following steps   After installing your Apache HTTP go to the bin folder using cmd   Install it as a service using httpd exe -k install even when you see the error never mind   Now make sure the service is installed  even if not started  according to your os    Restart the system  then you will find the Apache service will be the first one to take the 80 port      Congratulations the issue is solved

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you can solve it   sudo nano  etc apache2 ports conf      and changed Listen to 8080

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The most likely culprit is Microsoft Internet Information Server  You can stop the service from the command line on Windows 7 Vista   net stop was  y  or XP   net stop iisadmin  y  read this http   www sitepoint com unblock-port-80-on-windows-run-apache

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In my case  it was due to an IP address that Apache is listening to  Previously I have set it to 192 168 10 6 and recently Apache service is not running  I noticed that due to My laptop wifi changed recently and new IP is different  After fixing the wifi IP to laptop previous IP  Apache service is running again without any error    Also if you don t want to change wifi IP then remove comment that hardcode IP in httpd conf file to resolve conflict

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I was also facing the same issue  then i tried restarting my system after every change and it worked for me    Uninstall Apache2 4 in cmd prompt  run administrator  with the command  httpd -k uninstall  Restart the system  open cmd prompt  run administrator  with the command  httpd -k install  Then httpd -k install    Hope you find useful

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So  that is why i do a two  or more  post   I was having the same problem when starting the service  logs can not be opened    I thought it was because i was trying to have htdocs inside a VeraCrypt encripted container  absurd since i hace such contained mounted and i use a juntion to not affect paths   The i read the cause could be low ram  after some tests i get to the next conclusion   Windows is not sending pages to virtual ram to free enough ram if it is a service  for applications it is doing it  i have more than 200GiB of pagefile ready to be used as virtual ram in a 4GiB 64 Bit windows 10   My solution    Run a free utility that free ram  512MiB in my test  Inmediatly after start the service  it starts with no errors   Real Cause    I was using a virtual machine that uses 1 2 physical free ram  1 5GiB    Hope this help others

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Sorry for the belabored question  To solve my problem I just told apache 2 4 to listen to a different port in httpd conf  Since System was using pid 4 which was listening on port 80  I did not want to explore this any further   I put the following into httpd conf  Listen 127 0 0 1 122

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