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Ever since I have upgraded to windows 10, port 80 has been in use by the system. Is there anyway that I can stop the system from using port 80? Or can I change the port that apache uses?

Thanks

Edit: The process that is using port 80 is PID: 4

Euan
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    Certainly you can change the port apache uses in the configuration. But I would say it makes more sense to find out _what_ uses that port! nothing should happen on your system that you do not know about. Though actually that is an impossible demand on a MS-Windows based system, I know. – arkascha Aug 01 '15 at 16:42
  • this is usually or skype or maybe your IIS service is open. try closing skype (maybe it's auto installed) also try to close IIS (google on how to close it on win10) – Daniel Krom Aug 01 '15 at 16:43
  • @DanielKrom I will try to close IIS, as I have already uninstalled skype. – Euan Aug 01 '15 at 16:43
  • ok good luck! @arkascha solution is better but changing apache ports sometimes might be a complicated thing. – Daniel Krom Aug 01 '15 at 16:44
  • @DanielKrom Why should changing the configured port be complicated? You change that line in the configuration and reload the http server process. Nothing complicated there... – arkascha Aug 01 '15 at 16:45
  • well I did it once and I messed up everything, if you are using xampp it's easy, but I had it in amazon AWS also had to update security groups and so, was a pain in the s – Daniel Krom Aug 01 '15 at 16:46
  • I never understood why people use those fancy "distributions" of something perfectly simple like an apache http server. But then again I am not really familiar with the MS-Windows platform. Seems like many things are more complicated there. – arkascha Aug 01 '15 at 16:47
  • SEE -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30758894/apache-server-xampp-doesnt-run-on-windows-10-port-80/31229606 – CrandellWS Oct 07 '15 at 08:08

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I had the same problem after upgrading to Windows 10, and for me, the culprit was the IIS service: "World Wide Web Publishing Service". After stopping/disabling it, it freed up port 80.

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