Jon Galloway

Thanks, this one brought the light to my momentary darkness... Only that I had to quit Skype in order to bring my website back to life. Also, in my version of Skype the Connection is reached this way:

Tools->Options->Connection

Great!

Skype was the culprit here, too. Thanks for posting the solution.

thx took sometime to figure out this was the pain.

wah~~.... really s**k the skype... leeching the port.. but y previous i start skype and run IIS 5.0 got no problem?? only today just can't run the IIS only why huh???

Thank you for this solution ! I'm french and I've this problem for two month !!!

Jérôme

Many thanks, this solved my problem.

Thanks for this solution - had been causing me problems for a while.  

Thanks man, this solved my problem. All this while, i 've been running both skype and iis without problems, except 4 2day. How did u figure it out?

Excellent solution.. Short and to the point.

yeah! thanks alot . . it was skype that was hogging the port for me too, damn i wasted about 2 hours trying to find the problem!!!!!! was getting a different error from my application.

Straight to the point, thanks

great fix. Unloaded and loaded IIStwice before I found this solution. It works great

Thanks

Julian

THANKS SO MUCH!!!!

Hey, Thank you, Jon. Great, it worked and it was quick! That is why I LOVE INTERNET. It would kill me hours or days to find out a solution I reached in seconds.

Thank you very much. I've this problem 3 days. hix hix!

Great! thanks. i've been on it for two days.

Jon,

Many thanks

Cheers,

Paul

Hi

I have unchecked that option in Skype but the same error problem persist. I am on MS XP Pro. what should i do next. please help.

THX so much it worked for me... and solved this bloody problem...

Well ... thanks! You are a great man :) Skype was the problem.

Go figure - damn skype - thanks Jon.  Paul from New Zealand.

Thanks, jon.

Another fix

Sweet, thanks for the solution this has been on and off for a while.

Mark Bryden

thanks Jon!! Just had this issue and you turned up in Google.

Damn skype!

Thanks, that was it.

Many thanks, got it! :)

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I have suddenly started to have this problem, but when I use TCPView to look at the various ports in use, no port 80.  

Is there anything else that might be going on to suddenly, as in just yesterday, stop IIS from running locally on my Windows XP Pro laptop?  Thanks for any advice in advance.

Nice one, Skype! I just wasted half a day trying to sort this out, including reinstalling IIS a couple of times

A smelly poo sandwich to Skype

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Nice site you have!

i have no skype. but still getting this error.

Nice tip. Worked for me. Thank you.

I have to add my thanks to the growing list of appreciating developers and readers. This was most confusing until finding your blog. Thanks!

Saved me a LOT of time and effort. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks a lot...I was thinking about reinstalling .Net.

This tip helped me a lot and saved my time...

thanks yet again - is there an option in Skype to get round this?

Thanks! you solve my problem!

still have problem after uncheck skype port 80.

My IIS still stopped

Please help.

This is very good solution.

Thanks! You solved my problem!

Cheers,

Really heartfelt thanks.

Helpful

many thanks

Thanks For to the point solution....Great Work....a** hole skype...

I'm at herman@technicalservicesin.com

In TCPView, I assume the number after the colon in the local address column is the Port number.  If so, then Apache is using it.  If Apache is a competitor of IIS, then maybe that explains why I can't restart my website in IIS.  Am I barking up the right tree or not?

Easy peasy! (If you know:)

Thanks!

Problem solved.

Hurrrraaaaaayyyyyyy

thanks so murch (i'm hate spype)

Thank you Jon.  My hero. :-)

I have unchecked the permission to use 80 in the skype and restarted. it worked fine.

thanks a lot.

Spot on !!! That saved me loads of time and stress :) Very usefull

In my case, it was the Oracle 92 HTTP Server. Based on the FAQ here: www.orafaq.com/faqhttp.htm , it uses Apache web server which can also use port 80.

Cheers Jon, just ran into this issue this morning,  Skype was my problem as well.

The following webpage gives some more info in order to easily track down which process is actually using the port.

geekswithblogs.net/.../62910.aspx

Thanx a lot.... Skype was my problem as well.

Skype for me too, thanks a lot.

Nice

Nice

Nice

Nice

Nice!

Nice...

great unknown trouble using skype

resolved now

thanks

Thank you very much, it fixed it

Unreal, thanks for saving me a bunch of time...

... and yet another thanks!

Hi download a third party tool Fport, run it. its shows you all the ports and the applications currently using it, stop the application and start IIS.

In my case it was PTRG serive using port 80.

Thanks a lot for your tips

Thanks a ton for helping me fix this problem.....

Thanks for posting..it solved my problem. gotta love google...type in the error and instant results :)

thanks, you are the greatest.

Greatly appreciated - had to add my thanks too!  

Thanks. Saved me a lot of time,

Thanks for your help

-Jay

Check

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and check windows and see 5th comment

Regards

Naveen

Solution with screen shot on

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Regards

helpdesknaveen.blogspot.com

Thank you for saving our time, it’s really helpful

Thanks allot dude. I have faced this problem before and did same to solve it. But this time i was trying other options, i changed port but forgot to restart skype after changing it to catch the effect. Lastly when i restarted skype and iis server both i worked well. Thanks again.

thnx jon

its work fine and freed me restarting computers.

nice Tip it works for me

Thanks! i was facing this probmen from last 4-5 days

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Great fix. Thank you so much

Thank you so much it really helped me..

had to use the tool cports.exe to find out it was Skype using port 80

Absolutely Brilliant You Are - Thanks A Lot - GOD BLESS YOU

thanks a lot. worked!!

ive been trying to figure why my IIS would have an error for weeks!!!

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH

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Thank you. You fixed my problem. Thank you.

I had the same problem on my machine.

Thanks for the solution. This will save a lot of people time if they knew this from start.

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Thank you so much. This really helped me out!

bingo ! Skype was the problem

I have uninstall and renstall the IIS after that I install SQL server still I am facing the problem. Now I got the solution. I have removed my whole Skype from my PC.

Thanks,

JSaraboji.

I keep getting an error message:-

"Failed to mount Skype Databases.Possibly another instance of Skype using it."

Now, I am a philistine when it comes to IT/PCs etc.But I have done the basics i.e.:- reboot,remove programme etc etc . I still have a copy of the Exe file on my docs for some reason which I can't remove. Please help?

You can also disable using 80 as an alternative port under tools>options>advanced>connection

Yup, skype was the culprit

thanks for the solution

Thanks..it's indeed Skype that caused problem :P

Thanks. It saved lot of time.

Thank you very much! I solved my problem that my defaultwebsite was not starting. I removed the port 80 for Skype application and my default website started working!!