Hi folks,
I'm having a slightly complicated problem, so please bear with me for a minute.
At the moment I'm using the Hotspot function on my Europa for internet access on my laptop (crappy, wifi-less dorms), while also trying to learn a bit about the workings of this internet thing by tinkering around with web development stuff. Right now I'm trying to get WAMP to run on my laptop, and failing fairly spectacularly so far. Their troubleshooting forums tell me that the problem is caused by traffic on port 80, so I've closed every program I could think of that might be interfering, Skype, Evernote, Dropbox, even Google Desktop to be on the safe side (I also briefly turned off AVG and Windows Defender) and still no luck.
Some further google-ing suggested some command line tests. So, despite being totally out of my depth, and truly terrified of that little black window, I ran the "netstat -a" command as suggested, and got a big long list of stuff, but, of the little that google could explain, none of it pointed to anything blocking port 80. I'm still trying to work out what everything I gave me means, but first I want to rule out the Android as a possible culprit. Is there a way to find out if anything there could be blocking port 80? If so, how do I stop it or move it to another port?
Thanks for any help you can offer, and apologies for the long post.
Ryan
I'm having a slightly complicated problem, so please bear with me for a minute.
At the moment I'm using the Hotspot function on my Europa for internet access on my laptop (crappy, wifi-less dorms), while also trying to learn a bit about the workings of this internet thing by tinkering around with web development stuff. Right now I'm trying to get WAMP to run on my laptop, and failing fairly spectacularly so far. Their troubleshooting forums tell me that the problem is caused by traffic on port 80, so I've closed every program I could think of that might be interfering, Skype, Evernote, Dropbox, even Google Desktop to be on the safe side (I also briefly turned off AVG and Windows Defender) and still no luck.
Some further google-ing suggested some command line tests. So, despite being totally out of my depth, and truly terrified of that little black window, I ran the "netstat -a" command as suggested, and got a big long list of stuff, but, of the little that google could explain, none of it pointed to anything blocking port 80. I'm still trying to work out what everything I gave me means, but first I want to rule out the Android as a possible culprit. Is there a way to find out if anything there could be blocking port 80? If so, how do I stop it or move it to another port?
Thanks for any help you can offer, and apologies for the long post.
Ryan