Apache server Installation failed(Port 80 or 443 already in use)

Question

I have a question related to PHP. I am .net developer. I usually work on asp.net and c#.I installed Visual Studio and SQL Server in my laptop.Now I am trying to Install Xampp se

Answer 1

As it says - the port 80 and 443 are already in use. It means that the ports 80 and 443 are already in use by some other server or application. When i faced this issue, it was wamp server that was using these ports(not skype in my case).

What i did to resolve this is that I changed the ports for xampp.

How:

1. I configured the httpd.conf & httpd-ssl.conf files for Apache.
2. I changed values for Listen 80(where 80 is the port number) to another random port number(I chose 88) in httpd.conf file.
3. I changed values for Listen 443(where 443 is the port number) to another random port number(I chose 4433) in httpd-ssl.conf file.

Make sure you Apache server doesnt use the ports 80 and 443 anywhere in the configuration files, then it will work fluently.