There’s several ways to check the ports and what is using them, we’ll look at the command line and a port viewer tool. Not every piece of software tells you though so more work might be needed.
Luckily, some server software like XAMPP, WAMP Server and others usually tell you what is causing the issue so you don’t have to go through too much detective work. If your local Apache server is not loading and you believe another application has a hold on port 80, it’s a good idea to find out what the cause is.
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Here we show you how to find out what might be using port 80 on your computer and what to do if you have to change the port from 80 to something else in your Apache server software. As several programs cannot share the same port, you need to find what is already using port 80, then decide what to do. By default Apache relies on port 80 to be free, and if it isn’t, the server won’t start and the local website won’t load. When setting up your local web server, one issue that might stop it from running is something else could be using the system port that Apache requires to function. There are many server packages around that can do this such as XAMPP, WAMP Server, Uniform Server, UwAmp and more. You cannot just copy the website files to your computer and expect them to work, as a local web server such as Apache and a MySQL database will be required. The easiest way is to create a local website on your own computer. While it’s possible to perform such tasks on the fly and apply them directly to your website or upload the files via FTP, you could introduce bugs, glitches or even security holes to your visitors.Ī sensible solution is cloning your website and making changes to the backup first to see if they work. Or you might want to do something more substantial like completely redesign the website. It could be a small change such as a editing the CSS, Javascript or PHP code on your site.
If you are a webmaster it’s quite likely you will need to periodically make changes to your website.
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