Apache Server xampp doesn t run on Windows 10 Port 80

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I have installed the Windows 10 Insider Program  Everything works  except Apache  When I try to start it  it says that port 80 is blocked  Is there a way to unblock it or tell Apache to use another port instead   I was using Windows 7 before  I had trouble with port 80 with skype  but i have disabled it

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With Windows 10 IIS runs on Port 80 by default which can be changed   Run appwiz cpl  use Turn Windows features on or off and install the IIS Manager Console     Run InetMgr exe and go to  Connections -  Sites  and open with right-mouse click the context menu on the default entry  Default Website   In Context Menu select  Bindings  to open the Server address and port configuration         https   technet microsoft com library hh831681 aspx Site Bingings

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Beside the quite obvious reason  IIS   there is another reason that is common enough for this problem  It is worth to quote this question and its answer here   http   stackoverflow com questions 22994888 why-skype-using-http-or-https-ports-80-and-443    So  if you have Skype installed in the computer  be sure to check this as well  The solution is quoted here      To turn off and disable Skype usage of and listening on port 80 and port 443  open the Skype window  then click on Tools menu and select Options  Click on Advanced tab  and go to Connection sub-tab  Untick or uncheck the check box for Use port 80 and 443 as an alternatives for incoming connections option  Click on Save button and then restart Skype to make the change effective

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I know this MIGHT not be the cause of your issue  but I ve spent a few hours hitting my head against the wall to solve this issue and this is my solution     running Windows 10 x32   So I had installed XAMPP in a deeply nested directory and all the conf files make reference to root xampp apache  whereas my files were some dir another dir whatthehelliswrongwithme finally xampp apache  so my options were to either go through and edit all  xampp apache references and point them at the right place  OR  the much simpler option    reinstall XAMPP at the root  so the references all point to the right place   A little annoying  but I guess that s what we get when Mac and Windows try to be friends    Hope it helps a few of you

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The problem happens whenever a process uses port 80   You can run Netstat which is available in XAMPP Control Panel and check which process uses port 80 in your system   For me it wasn t IIS  but Skype   Turn off that process application and then start the Apache services

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While many are taking the approach to stop disable IIS  it may be helpful to know that you can simply modify the XAMPP port  which has been answered here  This is the route I had to take as I need both running

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In case you need to run IIS on port 80 443 but on different IP address  you may use netsh http add iplisten xxx xxx xxx xxx as described here   https   support microsoft com en-us help 954874 iis-binds-to-all-ip-addresses-on-a-server-when-you-install-iis-7-0-on  More details about netsh http add iplisten can be found here  https   msdn microsoft com en-us library windows desktop cc307219 aspx

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In my case I need both XAMPP for Apache development  amp  IIS Express for  Net 2013 development  so I do the following    In Command Prompt typed services msc  this loads  Windows Services  where I located  World Wide Web Publishing Service  and stop it  World Wide Web Publishing Service STOP The I start XAMPP Control Panel click on  Config   then choose  Apache httpd conf   Search for  80  then change that to  8080  in both  Listen 80  and  ServerName localhost 80   Save the file from  Save As   amp  choose  All files  to not save it as text from  Save As Type   amp  the  Encoding  should be  UTF-8   Apache httpd conf Quit XAMPP Control Panel  then start it again and from  Action  start Apache  amp  MySQL  Now you will see the port changed  As you know now you have to get to your Apache server by using  localhost 8080  instead of  localhost   Also you have both Apache  amp  IIS Express running in the same Windows 10 PC    I read a post some where were the writer suggested to use port  9080  but it did not work for me

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This answer is intended as an addendum to the highest rated answer on this thread by paaacman  I just wanted to add some helpful detail for users like myself who don t know their way around Windows 10 as well   Windows 10 runs IIS  Internet Information Services  Microsoft s web server software  automatically during Startup on Port 80  In order to use Apache Server on that port  IIS must be stopped    paaacman s response refers to the IIS server as  W3SVC   or the  World Wide Web Publishing Service   I suppose that s because Windows 10 runs IIS as a service  In order to disable it or modify how the service runs  you need to know where to find  Services  in your system   I found the easiest way there was to click on the search button next to the start menu button in the Windows 10 taskbar and type  Administrative Tools   You can either hit return or click on the  Administrative Tools  link that Windows finds for you   A control panel window will open with a list of tools  The one you want is  Services   Double-click it   Another window will open called  Services   Locate the one named  World Wide Web Publishing Service   Some other users in this thread have listed what it is called in other languages  if your list is not in English    If you only want to turn off the IIS server for this Windows session  but want it to run automatically again the next time you start up Windows  right-click  World Wide Web Publishing Service  and choose  Stop   The server will stop  and Port 80 will be freed up for Apache  or whatever else you want to use it for    If you want to prevent the IIS server from running automatically when you start up Windows in the future  right-click  World Wide Web Publishing Serivce  and select  Properties   In the window that appears  locate the  Startup type  dropdown  and set it  Manual   Click  Apply  or  OK  to save your changes  You should be all set

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I had the same problem on windows 10  IIS 10 0 was using port 80  To solve that    find service  W3SVC   disable it  or set it to  manual    French name is   Service de publication World Wide Web   English name is   World Wide Web Publishing Service   german name is   WWW-Publishingdienst      thanks  fiffy  Polish name is   Usluga publikowania w sieci WWW  - thanks  KrzysDan  Russian name is            -                thanks  Kreozot  Italian name is  Servizio Pubblicazione sul Web      thanks  Claudio-Venturini  Espa  ol name is  Servicio de publicaci  n World Wide Web  - thanks  Daniel-Santarriaga  Portuguese  Brazil  name is  Servi  o de publica    o da World Wide Web  - thanks  thiago-born    Alternatives     Another solution is to shutodwn the service via an admin console with command sc stop W3SVC see community wiki from Tobias Hochg  rtel Apache Server  xampp  doesn  39 t run on Windows 10  Port 80      Edit 07 oct 2015  For more details  see Matthew Stumphy s answer Apache Server  xampp  doesn  39 t run on Windows 10  Port 80

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First  open regedit run as administrator see image open HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentCurrentControlSet Services HTTP open Start  change value from 3 to 4 see image then restart your computer

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Type in command line  netstat -aon   findstr  80  You ll see PID of process which uses port 80  Then try to configure this app to use another port  or just kill it  UPDATE  I ll write my comment here to be more clear  according to this link  in Windows 10  it is the MsDepSvc service which occupies port 80  It s for IIS or Web Matrix 2  If you will not use IIS or Web Matrix 2 for any web development  you can try shutting down the service  And for the second part of your question  you can tell Apache to use another port by editing  Apache folder  conf httpd conf  It has  Listen 80  string  Change 80 to whatever free port you want and reload Apache

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I know that maybe this problem was resolved but I had the same problem with different solution  For that  I am going to explain another possible solution  In my case  the port 80 was occupied by Skype  pid  25252  and I did not know what programme was   To see the program s pid which is using the port 80 you can use the command that other people said before   netstat -aon   findstr 0 0 80   To kill the process using the pid  in the case that you do not know the programme  you have to open the CMD with administrator permission and use the next command   taskkill  pid 25252   Other options with this command are here

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Shutting down  some system process  may be tricky    you should rather edit the  Apache folder  conf httpd conf as mentioned by  Sergey Maksimenko and if you want to configure virtual host  use the new port in  Apache folder  conf extra httpd-vhosts conf  I used 4900 instead of 80 and 4901 instead of 443 in  Apache folder  conf httpd-ssl conf   And remember to use the port when accessing page on localhost  or your virtualhost   for example  localhost 4900 index html

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I think it simple to change your Apache server port   Go to C  xampplite apache conf Open httpd conf files  Search for Listen 80 Change 80 to any other like 9080 Now XAMPP restart try to start server   NB I am using Server version  5 1 41 with windows 10

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This fixed node js not running on port 80 under Windows 10 as well  I was getting a listen eacces error   Start   Services  find  World Wide Web Publish Service  and disable it  exactly as paaacman described

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I had the exact same problem and solved it running the folowing command from the command line as an admin     1  first stop the service with the following      net stop http  y   2  then disable the startup  optional       sc config http start  disabled

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I had the same issue and none of the above solutions worked for me   Apache uses both ports 80 and 443  for HTTPS  and both must be ready to be used for Apache to start successfully  Only port 80 might not be enough   I found in my case that when running VMWare Workstation I had the port 443 used by the VMware sharing    You have to disable sharing in the VMware main Preferences or change the port in this section   After that as long as you have no other server hooked to the port 80  see above solutions  then you should be able to start Apache or NGinx on XAMPP or any other Windows stack application   I hope this will help other users

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You may need to terminate SQL Server Reporting Services as well

[apache] Apache Server (xampp) doesn't run on Windows 10 (Port 80)

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