WAMP port 80 busy

I have installed WAMP on Windows 7 64-bit. When I try to start it, it says port 80 is used by "Server: Microsoft HTTPAPI/2.0".

I have checked and IIS is not installed. What should I do?

Solution 1:

This problem can be also from SQL Server Reporting Services. You need to stop/disable this service from:

1. Control Panel->System and Security->Administrative Tool->Services and stop the service named SQL Server Reporting Services (InstanceName)

2. Open SQL Server Configuration Manager -> SQL Server Services stop/disable SQL Server Reporting Services (InstanceName)

Solution 2:

I've solved this today!!! You go to "Control Panel" >> "System And Security" >> "Administrative Tools" >> "Component Services" >> "Services (LOCAL)"

Now, since you are using WAMP and not IIS you should disable the "World Wide Web Publishing Service" and the "Web Deployment Agent Service". You are good to go.

If this doesn't work you probably have Skype using Port 80 (if you actually have Skype). (If you have IIS installed you should also disable it. But if you don't have it installed you shouldn't worry!)

Solution 3:

An other solution could be to simply alter the appache httpd.conf. You can acces this file from the wamp menu > Apache > httpd.conf

Next alter the

#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
Listen 80

To for example

#Listen 12.34.56.78:7080
Listen 7080

Restart wamp and services then type http://localhost:7080 and you'll have wamp up and running

And disable the IIS service if installed.

Solution 4:

I came across this other post which helped me. For me

The Apache service wouldn't start because TCP/IP port 80 was in use.

The error was, Port 80 is used by "Server : Microsoft HTTPAPI/2.0".

The obvious thing was to disable the IIS web server, which can also use port 80. But this didn't solve the problem.

It turns out there are a long list of other services that can also use Port 80: These include the following services.

• SQL Server Reporting Services
• World Wide Web Publishing Service
• Web Deployment Agent Service
• Branch Cache Service (<== This was the important one for us, and also the one that is least documented)

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