Fmdpa 9 Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 I encountered a weird problem with Apache recently. It was not serving pages. After a little bit of research, I found the solution. It surprised me. Apparently Skype and Apache conflict for port 80. So if you have Skype installed, you must modify it to not use port 80. This blog shows how to do it. Just wanted to share that in case you are encountering the same problem. I never would have guessed that Skype had anything to do with it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ingolme 1,035 Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 With WAMP server, I noticed that it won't work properly unless you open skype after opening WAMP. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fmdpa 9 Posted September 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Was that even after you unchecked the option in skype regarding port 80? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ingolme 1,035 Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 I never changed any of Skype's options. WAMP works OK on my computer as long as I start it up before skype. Of course, I'm not serving content outside of my computer, I only use WAMP for testing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ingolme 1,035 Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 Sorry for the bump. I just wanted to give a little explanation: When you launch WAMP before skype, it takes port 80, therefore preventing skype from being able to use it. Skype can work fine without port 80 so it doesn't give any errors. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fmdpa 9 Posted October 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 Ok, that makes sense. I have Apache start up automatically with Windows and it still doesn't work sometimes. I don't have Skype running, so it's confusing. But if I just restart Apache everything's good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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