Problem installing joomla- Apche on XP - unable to access localhost

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Hi folks. I am planning to a site for our college and my friend suggested that I use Joomla or Drupal for content management..

I want to develop a site using Joomla and am very new to PHP. I have problem accessing localhost, I tried installing XAMP and WAMP but in vain, it takes a long time to access cPanel® and then nothing happens..

While installing XAMP I got an error saying that port 80 and 443 are being used by other services.. I suspected IIS and tried disabling it through the control panel. But it wasn't installed too..

I badly need to see Joomla looks!! This problem with local host is preventing me from accessing loocalhost..

Please help..
 
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probably something has screwd up you install. Remove all stuff you installed. Install XAMMP, It will kick start everything it needs. I assume you have already tried port checking tool which comes with apache install. Its possible your firewall/antispyware is stopping script execution or letting apache act as a server. I guess that should solve the problem.

Good Luck!
 
if you have IIS , then the service might be using up port 80. disable the whole IIS thingies. they cant run with apache anyway.
 
I suspected IIS and tried disabling it through the control panel. But it wasn't installed too..
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Its most likely some firewall issue. Its blocking apache from serving the page, otherwise you dont need to give another try with XAMMP.
 
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