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* UPDATED FOR XAMPP 1.7.5 (November 2011)
If you have IIS installed on your Windows environment and want to run XAMPP (the windows flavour of Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP) then here’s an easy way for both applications to co-exist.
There are two ways to solve this – either change IIS (the harder way) or change the Apache config (the easier way) – either way you’ll achieve the same thing. Personally I went the Apache route and here’s how I did it (using XAMPP v1.7.1).
(This assumes you just installed XAMPP)
Change the Port Defaults
By default IIS uses ports 80 and 443 for HTTP and HTTPS access respectively (list of ports and what they do here). By default, Apache also assumes these…
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