Hi,

Firstly u have'nt given me all the details, for eg what ur installing
(are u installing tomcat too - coz of 8080), what is the OS and what
exactly is the problem, do u have a firewall installed (McaFee or
Norton etc). Is ur windows fire wall disabled. What all have u tried.

So considering that I don't exactly know the problem, I can suggest
the following

1. Stoping other webservers:

After u restart ur machine and before apache is started

In cmd prompt do
telnet localhost 80

If it gives the error
"Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on
port 80: Connect failed"

then ur machine is clean of any other intruding webservers.

If it does not give the above error, in that case ur machine has a
rogue webserver.

Theres no direct way of cleaning them up, firstly try removing any
obvious ones by uninstalling them if they exist. Eg: IIS could be the
culprit, uninstall it.

If nothing works change the http port to say 2345 in httpd.conf and use
apache.

2. Please check ur firewall settings, they could be a cause. It is
really silly but a great many of us have spent a great many hours
getting apache to work, when at the end of the day it's a firewall
problem. Thank BillG for that.

Cheers,
Roshan Pai

Wolf wrote:
> 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....