

Looking for :80 under Local Address column I had this: Local Address:Īnd below all these, there was a message “Can not obtain ownership information”. Press space bar to scroll to the next page. When I ran the cports.exe I got a list processes listening to different ports and there was one listening to port 80, but unfortunately for me, there was no useful information about which process is doing this as shown below:Ībout Pipe (|) and more command: Pipe redirects the output of the netstat to the next command (in our case more) which is a pager that displays a content one screen a time. On my machine running Windows 7 64-bit I located cports.exe at:Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-DevServer-14.1VC11\binaries\tools\cports\ If you also have EasyPHP installed, you should already have this utility.

Running CurrPorts (cports.exe) as the error message suggestedĬurrPorts is a little utility that lists all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports and the processes that opened those ports. So I decided to take advice from that EasyPHP error message about using cports.exe. Starting Apache failed again with the same port 80 is busy problem. Uninstall IIS Express 8 and the issue will go away, but to my surprise, that still didn’t solve the problem at all. It was IIS Express 8 which was installed long time ago and I have totally forgotten about it.

Looking at the list of installed programs I quickly found one such application that might be causing this issue. Using Programs and Features to look for application causing the issue
