hi,
i also had the same problem but becoz of ur now i have found
that wat is holding that port.... i am novice...but how to make it free
.....wen is typed netstat -an i get a mes like tis

TCP 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

here it says listening wat do it mean by that how to turn off other web
server if there is one running apart from apache...... i had one web
server named abyss but i removed it before installing apache....plz
me on tis.....thank U....