Hello,
If you are on Windows 7 and WAMP is not working.You have closed SKYPE, changed its default ports etc, and any other related software which can possibly use port 80, and still WAMP doesn't start. Specifically Apache.
A little bit of Goggling can tell you that Port 80 is taken by Windows 7, Pid 4 in Task Manager, further you can find out that its a system process and it cannot be killed.
I found that there is service named http.sys which captures port 80 on start-up and it needed to be stopped in order to release port 80.
It has to be disabled through REGEDIT, following are the steps for the same,
If you are on Windows 7 and WAMP is not working.You have closed SKYPE, changed its default ports etc, and any other related software which can possibly use port 80, and still WAMP doesn't start. Specifically Apache.
A little bit of Goggling can tell you that Port 80 is taken by Windows 7, Pid 4 in Task Manager, further you can find out that its a system process and it cannot be killed.
I found that there is service named http.sys which captures port 80 on start-up and it needed to be stopped in order to release port 80.
It has to be disabled through REGEDIT, following are the steps for the same,
- Launch regedit, run-> type regedit
- Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP
- Locate Start
- Change the value to 4 which means disabled.
- Restart your system.
- Now your WAMP should work.
Anshumaan Bakshi
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