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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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Go to the Control Panel and launch "Windows Firewall" Go to "Advanced Settings" Select "Inbound Rules" in the left pane Select "New Rule" in the right pane In the New Inbound Rule Wizard, select "Port" as Rule Type, then click on "Next" Select "TCP and put "80" (and any other ports you want to open) in "Specific local ...
If still this fails, your last hope is to check the apache error log by clicking on the logs tab in apache's row in the xampp control panel and clicking error log. If none of this works, don't give up! You got this! It is also possible to specify port 81 in the url of your localhost, i.e.
During installation, port 80 is required to install the Apache web server.
I had the same problem on windows 10, IIS/10.0 was using port 80
To solve that:
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Alternatives :
sc stop W3SVC Edit 07 oct 2015: For more details, see Matthew Stumphy's answer Apache Server (xampp) doesn't run on Windows 10 (Port 80)
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