Wordpress, Wamp and Designer X

[jonazen]

In installed a version of WAMP to support the PHP work I'm doing right now (I'm using EasyPHP distribution). When I fired it up, I found that it complained that port 80 was in use. Possible that Xara was using it when I preview websites locally? (guessing).

Anyway - it was simple enough to set Apache to use port 8080 instead - all conflicts gone now. May or may not apply to your situation, but thought I'd share just in case you run into this.

[slavelle]

Probably nothing to do with Xara. More likely that you either have IIS installed on the machine or maybe Skype?

[Big Frank]

i had the same port 80 conflict
it was skype
i too set up 8080 and all was well

a bit stupid, that, in hindsight
its an office server that shouldnt even have skype on it
would have been better do do a revo uninstall of skype, lol

[jonazen]

In my case, it seemed that, somehow, Windows Firewall had become active again, even though I had turned it off several months ago (I have a hardware firewall between me and the outside world). Once I turned it off, it seemed to address my reported port 80 issue.