How do I free my port 80 on localhost Windows?

Question

I installed XAMPP 1.6.8 and for some reason it didn\'t work. Later realized port 80 is not free or not listening. How can I release it or make it free?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

I faced the same issue and fixed it by making a small change in the httpd.conf file which can be obtained by clicking the config button along with the Apache option.

The change I made was to replace listen 80 with listen 8080.