How do I free my port 80 on localhost Windows

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I installed XAMPP 1 6 8 and for some reason it didn t work  Later realized port 80 is not free or not listening  How can I release it or make it free   Thanks a lot

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Skype likes to use port 80 and blocks IIS   That was my prob

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For me  this problem began when I hosted a VPN-connection on my Windows 8 computer   Simply deleting the connection from  Control Panel Network and Internet Network Connections  solved the problem

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I was trying to install nginx from here - http   nginx org en docs windows html  Going to http   localhost   will show something  at least a proper  not found  message   This is because 80 is the default port  and it was taken by other processes   Now run below command   net stop http         Above command stopped below services          - SSDP Discovery          - Print Spooler          - BranchCache          - Function Discovery Resource Publication          - Function Discovery Provider Host     Now  going to http   localhost   will fail with a broken link page message   Main process was BranchCache This process  after stopped  will restart in a few seconds  So we need to run other commands we need soon  an example below        this will stop net stop http     immeidately run other command you want to start nginx   Now  going to http   localhost   gave me   Welcome to nginx    Hope that helps

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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   If you are running IIS you may have the web farm service running  That was what was killing my xampp

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Known Windows Services That Listen on Port 80  From Services Manager  run  services msc   stop and disable these Windows Services which are known to bind to port 80   Double click Service  and change    Startup Type    to    Disabled         SQL Server Reporting Services  ReportServer  Web Deployment Agent Service  MsDepSvc  BranchCache  PeerDistSvc  Sync Share Service  SyncShareSvc  World Wide Web Publishing Service  W3SVC  Internet Information Server  WAS  IISADMIN    skype also using port 80 as default setting and you can uncheck it   You might  or might not  have some of these Services installed and running   In my case  SQL Server Reporting Services  was opening port 80

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That agony has been solved for me  I found out that what was taking over port 80 is http api service  I wrote in cmd    net stop http   Asked me  The following services will be stopped  do you want to continue   Pressed y   It stopped a number of services actually   Then wrote localhost and wallah  Apache is up and running on port 80  Hope this helps  Important  Skype uses port 80 by default  you can change this in skype options   advanced   connection - and uncheck  use port 80

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use netstat -bano in an elevated command prompt to see what apps are listening on which ports   But Usually following applications uses port 80 in windows    IIS World Wide Web Publishing service IIS Admin Service SQL Server Reporting services Web Deployment Agent Service   Stop above applications if running and check

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I also had the same problem  net stop http didn t help and World wide web services option under IIS in Windows Control Panel was unchecked  So in XAMPP control panel I just checked the Svc checkbox near Apache start button  Install Apache as service  and rebooted Windows  And now each time Windows starts Apache is started automatically and occupies port 80 before any other service does  Worked for me

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netstat -a -b  Should tell you what program is bound to port 80

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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 - gt  Select Columns menu  enable the PID column  and you will see the name of the process listening on port 80

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I faced the same issue and fixed it by making a small change in the httpd conf file which can be obtained by clicking the config button along with the Apache option  The change I made was to replace listen 80 with listen 8080

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

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Other option to try is to stop SQL Server Reporting Services

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I had this problem previously   if you see the Task manager after enabling the view for PID   you will find PID 4 is  port 80 in use by NT Kernel  amp  System     Just go to   Control Panel Programs Turn Windows features on off check if the World wide web services under IIS is checked   If so  Uncheck and netstat or TCPVIEW  again to see if 80 is free

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in my case window iis to stop Web Deployment Agent Service Type in cmd   net stop msdepsvc

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Identify the real process programmatically  when the process ID is shown as 4  The answers here  as usual  expect a level of interactivity  The problem is when something is listening through HTTP sys  then  the PID is always 4 and  as most people find  you need some tool to find the real owner  Here s how to identify the offending process programmatically  No TcpView  etc  as good as those tools are   Does rely on netsh  but then  the problem is usually related to HTTP sys   Uri    quot http   127 0 0 1 8989 quot       for example     Shows processes that have registered URLs with HTTP sys  QueueText   netsh http show servicestate view requestq verbose yes   Out-String    Break into text chunks  discard the header  Queues       QueueText -split     lt   n    Request queue name     Select-Object -Skip 1    Find the chunk for the request queue listening on your URI  Queue          Queues  -match  regex   Escape  Uri -replace         if   Queue Count -eq 1          Will be null if could not pick out exactly one PID      ProcessId    string  Queue -replace    s   Process IDs  s   -replace    s  s    -as  int       if   ProcessId                Write-Verbose  quot Identified process  ProcessId as the HTTP listener  Killing    quot          Stop-Process -Id  ProcessId -Confirm          Originally posted here  https   stackoverflow com a 65852847 6274530

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

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Type in  netstat -ano  into your command line  I saw that it was showing something for Local Address port 0 0 0 0 80    My issue was because I had SQL Server Reporting Services on Port 80  So I followed these instructions and changed the port   from 80 to 81   http   seankilleen com 2012 11 how-to-stop-sql-server-reporting-services-from-using-port-80-on-your-server-field-notes   Here is a picture of my command line AFTER I changed the port number for SQL Server Reporting Services     If you are still having the same issue  read this forum   http   forum wampserver com read php 2 66196 66233 REPLY

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You can use net stop http it will display which process is using  Moslty world wide web services are using

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