If you have upgraded from previous Windows version to the latest Microsoft’s Windows 8, you may not probably be able to get your local server get to work.
When you try to start Apache, you will get error saying the port 80 is being used by other applications. After trying to dig into so many queries, I found that the World Wide Web Publishing in Windows 8 service is using that default server port 80.
Therefore, open your “Services” window and disable that WWW service. After disabling that service, Apache server in local server package like XAMPP or AMPPS works flawlessly.
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