Port 80 to 8080

Question

First time I installed the package xampp I had many problems (like everyone who tries to use this programs and tries to create a website!)

I had made some researches on the web to find the solution to make Apache work: I setted the usual port 80 to 8080.

Now everytime I want to access to control panel of xampp or access to the DBMS MySQL I have always to add to the url ":8080" after "localhost".

My first question is: is it possible not to write ":8080" after the "localhost", maybe changing some settings I don't know where or in what file? (ex: "localhost:8080/xampp/" => "localhost/xampp")

Another thing: what could be the problems if apache is listening on the port 8080 instead of the usual one? (I don't have many experience in this field...)

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

The only way to not write :8080 in the address bar is to make it work with the default port, which is :80. If the server does not want to start on that port it's probably because another program is already using it.

netstat -a -n -o | findstr ":80 "

With this command you can see which program is using your 80 port.