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I have installed XAMPP 1.8.1. on my Windows 8 64bit machine. I'm now facing a problem with ports. This is what I got from XAMPP Control Panel:
11:52:43 AM [Apache] Problem detected!
11:52:43 AM [Apache] Port 80 in use by "c:\windows\syswow64\wwahost.exe"!
11:52:43 AM [Apache] Apache WILL NOT start without the configured ports free!
11:52:43 AM [Apache] You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
11:52:43 AM [Apache] or reconfigure Apache to listen on a different port
11:52:43 AM [Apache] Problem detected!
11:52:43 AM [Apache] Port 443 in use by "c:\windows\syswow64\wwahost.exe"!
11:52:43 AM [Apache] Apache WILL NOT start without the configured ports free!
11:52:43 AM [Apache] You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
11:52:43 AM [Apache] or reconfigure Apache to listen on a different port
WWAHost.exe is needed for Metro Apps (wwahost.exe) so I don't know which is safer, change WWAHost.exe's ports or change Apache's ports? How would I accomplish this?
EDIT 2013/01/16: I've reinstalled W8 and Apache server. Apache is now using port 80. Before installing Apache server I've removed almost all Metro/Modern UI Apps.
1Interesting problem. I would imagine WWAHost is a service that can be turned off via
Win + R -> services.msc
if there is no need for it. Changing the port of Apache can be done inC:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\httpd.conf
: ChangeListen 80
toListen 8080
or anything else. – Henning Klevjer – 2012-10-28T11:18:55.250You should wait for someone more Win8-savvy to come around with a registry hack or something to circumvent the port hogging. – Henning Klevjer – 2012-10-28T11:26:57.953
Using port 8080 works well (for now :)). But I have to type localhost:8080, not only localhost - but I can make a bookmark :) – Peter O. – 2012-10-28T11:28:43.370
2Thats a pretty interesting 'bug' - considering windows 8 has IIS as an option, and this has taken up both the HTTP and HTTPs ports. – Journeyman Geek – 2012-10-28T11:40:24.707