[Xitami] Port 80 mystery

[Thomas J. Hruska]

Toni McConnel wrote:
> Hi, Magus...
> 
>  Netstat is SO COOL!  Using netstat -b, it showed me the executables 
> that are using ports.  Now my problem is that I'm not sure which number 
> is the port number.  Is that PID?  Local Address?  Foreign address?  All 
> the numbers have four digits; I think I remember that anything that has 
> 80 or 81 as last two digits is port 80, is that correct?  So I saw that 
> Foldershare, MS's web-based service for syncing documents between 
> computers, showed 2280 so I closed it.  When that didn't solve the 
> problem I uninstalled Foldershare completely and restarted the computer, 
> and STILL I get the same message.  Now only thunderbird and google 
> notify are using ports and  none of the numbers end in 80 or 81.
> In Xitami's FAQ it says that the port for Xitami can be changed by 
> creating a file default.cfg and designating a different port.  So I can 
> try that but I'd rather identify what is tying up port 80 because it 
> bothers me not to know.
> Toni

Search for each executable name listed for what it is and what it does. 
  Local address is the one that should specify the port.

netstat -a -b

Gives much more information.  It also takes a while.

You're looking for the Local Address that shows:

TCP  YourComputerName:80  YourComputerName:0  LISTENING  SomeProcessID
[ExeFileInTaskManager]

Search Google to see what that EXE is.  Actually, you should know what 
ALL the executables currently running on your system do.  Searching 
Google turns up the results for everything usually with significant details.

-- 
Thomas Hruska
Shining Light Productions