The above link shows you how to change the IIS port bindings. I changed them to port 8585 which allowed Apache to start flawlessly. Now how to change windows remote management https port to other than 443… that’s what I would like to know.

Well, actually it does… you can use this “home” version of Windows to control other computers via RDP, but no one can support you by controlling yours using RDP. Typical backwards M$ thinking I guess. (And just one of a number of crippled features in “Home Premium” Microsoft neglects to mention on their edition comparison charts.)

- Oh! and … for me, it was ‘World Wide Web Publishing Service’ that caused the problem.

Fred :
1. Get pid that is listening port 80: netstat -nao | find “:80″
2. Open task manager, go to processes tab and check “PID” on menu/view/Select Columns…. then you can find out the progress with that pid.
3. If it is a normal application or IIS, just disable or uninstall it.
4. If it is System progress(PID 4), you need to disable HTTP.sys driver which is started on demand by other service, such as Windows Remote Management/Print Spooler on Windows 2008 or Windows 7. there is two way to disable it:
a.
1) Go to device manager, select “show hidden devices” from menu/view, go to “Non-Plug and Play Driver”/HTTP, double click it to disable it (and disable or manual some services depended on it).
2) Reboot and use netstat -nao | find “:80″ to check no 80 is used.
b.
1) Launch RegEdit
2) Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP
3) Change the value of ’start’ to 4 (disabled)
4) Re-boot your computer

DM :

skeptigator :
I have an alternate suggestion for Windows 7
In general, messing with the ports that your Operating System is using just seems like a bad idea, you’ll end up with weird network issues like printing
In addition, I need to have IIS running locally as well for the .NET projects I take on so having two web servers listening on different ports was important.
For me the best situation was simply to change the IP Port that Apache listens on (the default is port 80, which is the standard for all web traffic).
I changed mine to port 8666 (but it could be anything above 1024), I did the following:
Locate the httpd.conf file in the following directory [install directory]\xampp\apache\conf (mine was in, C:\xampp\apache\conf)
Find the line that says, Listen 80 and I changed it to Listen 8666. Save and Close the file and now Start the Apache service in the Xampp control panel. Life should be good.
Now the only catch to this method is that you can’t just go to http://localhost/xampp anymore you have to tell your browser which port specifically to use (it will by default use 80), so you will have to use http://localhost:8666/xampp/ (the port is designated by the colon and then the number).
The cool thing is I can run http://localhost:8666 to run Apache and http://localhost:8616 to run my local IIS for .NET projects.
I hope this helps someone
Jeremy

Hey mate, I followed your instructions but I think I did something wrong here. I am using Xampp version 1.7.3, and do have to turn on SVC by installing them or do I turn them on by the start button for ‘Apache’ and ‘MySql’?
I appreciate your help
CHEERS

lol..I got it going friend
Thanks for the valuable info.

skeptigator :
I have an alternate suggestion for Windows 7
In general, messing with the ports that your Operating System is using just seems like a bad idea, you’ll end up with weird network issues like printing
In addition, I need to have IIS running locally as well for the .NET projects I take on so having two web servers listening on different ports was important.
For me the best situation was simply to change the IP Port that Apache listens on (the default is port 80, which is the standard for all web traffic).
I changed mine to port 8666 (but it could be anything above 1024), I did the following:
Locate the httpd.conf file in the following directory [install directory]\xampp\apache\conf (mine was in, C:\xampp\apache\conf)
Find the line that says, Listen 80 and I changed it to Listen 8666. Save and Close the file and now Start the Apache service in the Xampp control panel. Life should be good.
Now the only catch to this method is that you can’t just go to http://localhost/xampp anymore you have to tell your browser which port specifically to use (it will by default use 80), so you will have to use http://localhost:8666/xampp/ (the port is designated by the colon and then the number).
The cool thing is I can run http://localhost:8666 to run Apache and http://localhost:8616 to run my local IIS for .NET projects.
I hope this helps someone
Jeremy

Hey mate, I followed your instructions but I think I did something wrong here. I am using Xampp version 1.7.3, and do have to turn on SVC by installing them or do I turn them on by the start button for ‘Apache’ and ‘MySql’?

I appreciate your help
CHEERS