How do I free my port 80 on localhost Windows?
localhost, port, windows, windows-xp, xampp
Solution
I found out that what was taking over port 80 is http api service. I wrote in cmd:
net stop http
Asked me "The following services will be stopped, do you want to continue?" Pressed y
It stopped a number of services actually.
Then wrote `localhost` and wallah, Apache is up and running on port 80.
Important: Skype uses port 80 by default, you can change this in skype options > advanced > connection - and uncheck "use port 80"
Problem
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!