One of the (only) good things about switching computers every 8 months (I wish I could explain it, but I can’t. It just happens) is that I never forget how to set things up, which is a very handy skill in the ever-intuitive world of Windows. Take, for instance, IIS. If it’s not there in the stock install, I know that I need to go to Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs, and THEN pick Add or Remove Windows Components. Once that’s done I can go into IIS through Adminstrative Tools, set up a new home directory, and it’s all good.
Except today.
Today I got the ever-so-helpful “Unexpected error 0×8ffe2740 occurred.” I haven’t decoded big hexadecimal numbers in a few years, but I suspect the result wouldn’t be the start of a series of clues of Da Vinci Code magnitude leading to the solution, but it would have been a pretty crappy book if they’d just used Google like I did, right?
According to this KBase article, the problem is that something else is using port 80. WTF? Anyway, using FPort as suggested, it turns out the offender was… Skype. Didn’t see that coming.
Apparently there’s an option in the Skype config to use port 80 as an alternate incoming port:
Yep, that’ll do it… Clearing the option did the trick.
Steve | 10-Feb-07 at 7:58 pm | Permalink
Thanks man,
Google helped, but you saved the day!
(Skype… damn.. didn’t see that comin’ at me)
(spam blocker: pants
ya, it caught me w/ my pants down…)
Anushree Bhate | 05-Oct-07 at 5:00 am | Permalink
It actully saved atleast 2-3 hours of mine.
Thanks a ton
Jason | 16-May-08 at 10:43 am | Permalink
You just saved me from a complete mental breakdown. Thanks!
scott ferguson | 05-Jun-08 at 3:57 pm | Permalink
Awesome dude! That was a huge help. Saved me hours!