Hi There I installed XAMPP a few weeks ago and had a php website working on my localhost – all worked fine no probs. To do this I had to stop my IIS server as this was also using port:80 which is what XAMPP is set to use as default. Now for some reason when I started IIS again a few days ago to do some asp development work and then stopped it again, the apache server would not start even though I’ve definitely stopped IIS. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing XAMPP, but it still won’t start. I tried running the apache_start.bat from the command line and I got the following error message: "An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions": make_sock: unable to listen for connections on address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Apache could not be started If I try and start Apache from the XAMPP control panel it just says Apache:stopped and the message in the bottom window is ERROR: Apache service not started [-1] I was just wondering if you had come across this problem before? If yes, how did you resolve it? Someone mentioned changing the port, but being a bit new to apache and XAMPP I’m not really sure what would need to change in what config files. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I think the following article will help you to resolve this: http://blog.networkfoo.org/?p=126 Kailash