yes it was checked in the

netsperience — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:59:12 +0000

yes it was checked in the default installation of Skype

I did not know what was causing the problem with xampp until I abandoned it and installed wampserver which has a "port 80" test utility that told me there may be a conflict with Skype on port 80

I posted this info at drupal.org and it was suggested I contact www.apachefriends.org which I did

I suppose I could eventually have figured out what was tying up port 80 - but it is a problem when an app automatically configures for a port which may be in use - and I don't have much patience for an app that doesn't work when there are alternatives.

BTW, off topic a bit, I had some trouble configuring xampplite to sendmail with my smtp server. I kept editing php.ini in the php directory (and there are 3 versions of it that come with the php installation) but finally a Google search directed me to apache/bin/php.ini which did the trick.

The error message merely advised me to edit php.ini and of course I looked in the php dir... I forgot from years ago how to configure apache..

Was that option checked by

pr0gr4mm3r — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:22:54 +0000

Was that option checked by default, netsperience? I don't think it's right that the program uses reserved ports by default only to bypass firewalls. Those ports are reserved for a reason - to prevent problems such as these.

Using Skype 3.8.0.139 (I

netsperience — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:50:06 +0000

Using Skype 3.8.0.139 (I believe latest version)

Under the Tools menu > in Options > in Advanced > in Connection

there is a text field to set the port number - mine by default is 59040 and I left it alone

below there is a checkbox "Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections"

I unticked the box and Skype and xammp are working fine

I have no experience with

greg — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:11:00 +0000

I have no experience with Skype at all, so the following might be unadvisable

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"An FAQ" wrote:

Skype can use ports other than the default so that it has a "work anywhere" configuration. To set the ports do the following:

* From the "File" menu select "Options"
* Select the "Connection" tab
* Change the port to 443
* Select the box for "Use port 80 as an alternative for incoming connections"

This will set Skype to use two well known ports, 80 HTTP and 443 HTTPS which are open in virtually all environments.

So if you set it to use 443 and DON'T tick the box for "Use port 80 as an alternative for incoming connections", would Skype still work ok and allow the server to run as required?