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Up until a few days ago xampp was working perfectly, and i often used it to develop a couple of projects I've got going on, but all of a sudden http://localhost stops taking me to the apache index of my htdocs folder in the xampp directory, and starts to show me the IIS7 image, show below:



Now, I didn't know what IIS was so after a bit of searching I figured it was a microsoft server manager. So i disabled it under control panel -> add or remove programs -> turn windows features on or off. This would hopefully stop IIS trying to hog port 80 and let xampp run again.

However, now xampp does indeed say that it can run, and even using the port checker script included in xampp it says that all ports are free, the damn ugly IIS page is still there, not letting me access the xampp htdocs folder.

Anyone got any idea on what could still be causing this?

1) Ininstall IIS
2) Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services
3) Click the + beside Local Computer
4) Click the + beside Web sites
5) Select Default Website and click the stop button.

Can you try one thing for me? Can you try 127.0.0.1 cause for some weird reason, when something like this happened to me, localhost wouldn't work but 127.0.0.1 did

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Originally posted by matty
1) Ininstall IIS
2) Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services
3) Click the + beside Local Computer
4) Click the + beside Web sites
5) Select Default Website and click the stop button.

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Thanks, but I already tried that to no avail.

I tried uninstalling IIS, then WAS, then reinstalling xampp, then reinstalling WAS, and a whole host of other combinations, all to no avail... But wierdly;

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Originally posted by John Anderton
Can you try one thing for me? Can you try 127.0.0.1 cause for some weird reason, when something like this happened to me, localhost wouldn't work but 127.0.0.1 did

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... This worked for me aswell! Freaky solution, but a solution nonetheless! Thanks very much JA! Have a cookie

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Originally posted by John Anderton
Can you try one thing for me? Can you try 127.0.0.1 cause for some weird reason, when something like this happened to me, localhost wouldn't work but 127.0.0.1 did

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localhost should be mapped in your hosts file to 127.0.0.1