Microsoft KB Archive/149843

= FP: Personal Web Server Cannot Bind to Port 80 =

Article ID: 149843

Article Last Modified on 11/13/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 1.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 1.1 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q149843



For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194486.



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. </li> Save and close the Httpd.cnf file.</li> Start the FrontPage Server Administrator.</li> Click Uninstall to remove the FrontPage Personal Web Server extensions.</li> Click OK.</li> 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.</li> Click OK.</li> In the Administrator Setup dialog box, type a name and password and then click OK.</li></ol>

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: <pre class="fixed_text">  Dalmatian:8080

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