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I just tried installing appserve on my vista machine and it seems to install, but will not run. &nbsp;<br />
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If I go and click manually start Apache, a dos prompt opens up and says no listening sockets available shutting down.<br />
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I had tried to install some other Apache program before that I deleted. &nbsp;I also have iis, but don't use it. &nbsp;How do I get rid of everything and just get this appserve to work?
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I just tried installing appserve on my vista machine and it seems to install, but will not run.  

If I go and click manually start Apache, a dos prompt opens up and says no listening sockets available shutting down.

I had tried to install some other Apache program before that I deleted.  I also have iis, but don't use it.  How do I get rid of everything and just get this appserve to work?

appserv not working on vista

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