How do I free my port 80 on localhost Windows?
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 httpAsked 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"
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 -> Select Columns menu, enable the PID column, and you will see the name of the process listening on port 80.
netstat -a -b
Should tell you what program is bound to port 80