FP: Personal Web Server Cannot Bind to Port 80
ID: Q149843
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The information in this article applies to:
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Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows with Bonus Pack
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Microsoft FrontPage for Windows, versions 1.0, 1.1
SYMPTOMS
When you start the FrontPage Personal Web Server by clicking the icon on
the Windows 95 Start menu or by double-clicking the icon in the Windows NT
FrontPage program group, you receive the following error message:
Httpd: Could not bind to port 80.
CAUSE
In most cases, this error message is displayed because there is already
another Web server installed to or operating on port 80.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, use the following steps:
- Stop the Web server currently running on Port 80
- Uninstall the extensions on the FrontPage Personal Web Server at port
80 by running the FrontPage Server Administrator (fpsrvwin.exe).
- In a text editor such as Notepad, open the Httpd.cnf configuration
file located in the FrontPage Webs\Server\Conf folder.
- Find the line that reads "port 80" (without the quotation marks).
- Change it to read:
port 8080
NOTE: You can specify any number greater than 1024.
- Save and close the Httpd.cnf file.
- Start the FrontPage Server Administrator.
- Click Uninstall to remove the FrontPage Personal Web Server extensions.
- Click OK.
- Click Install to reinstall the FrontPage Personal Web Server
Extensions. In the Server Type drop-down list, select FrontPage
Personal Web Server, and then click Browse to locate the
Httpd.cnf file (which is typically located in the
FrontPage Webs\Server\conf folder). Click OK or Open.
- Click OK.
- In the Administrator Setup dialog box, type a name and password and
then click OK.
This procedure will automatically bind the FrontPage Personal Web Server to
the port number you specified in step 3.
Once this is done, specify the port number in addition to the server name
when you select a Web server in FrontPage Explorer or when you
browse a page on the server. For example, if your server name is Dalmatian
and you are using port number 8080, then you would specify the
following Web server:
Dalmatian:8080
Additional query words:
1.00a binding bound attached attach attaching
Keywords : kbinterop kbusage kbdta fppws
Version : windows:1.0,1.1,97
Platform : WINDOWS
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