WAMP - Your port 80 is actually used - Error

Question

I installed Wamp server and when I open it, it never gets online. It always stays orange (offline). I read something about Skype, but I don't even have Skype installed and when I go to Apache > Service > Test port 80 it says: Your port 80 is actually used

Any ideas how to make this work?

Answer 1

If you are using windows machine the port 80 is used by the IIS Server and Skype also used the port 80. that why it says that port 80 is already used. To avoid the conflict,change the port number of the wamp server to some other number,for example 5050.

for changing the port number of the wamp server go to: C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\conf\httpd.conf

In that file change the listen port to 5050.

#Listen 12.34.56.78:5050

Listen 0.0.0.0:5050

Listen [::0]:5050

and you access the wamp server at localhost:5050

It works for me and I hope it works.