Change default port of IIS and let another process to listen on port 80 (Windows Server 2008)

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I have an installation of Windows Server 2008 running IIS 6 with a website listening on port 8080, even though I have moved the website to listen on 8080, port 80 is still kept in use by IIS (for truth by the kernel process : System – ProcId : 4).

I want to let another process listen on port 80 without uninstalling or disabling IIS, I want to keep IIS listening on port 8080 and another service on port 80, is there a way to do it?

I saw another similar thread here on serverfault but the solution (using httpcfg.exe delete iplisten -i 0.0.0.0:80 ) can work only in 2003 because in 2008 the utility httpcfg.exe doesn't exist and it seems that it cannot be installed …

Does anyone have a solution to get rid of the kernel listening on port 80 in Windows Server 2008 with IIS running?

Best Answer

Aleroot, go to c:\Windows\System32\inetsrv and then run the command "appcmd list site" ; this should give you a good starting point and list all the sites with their configs

c:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>appcmd list site SITE "Default Web Site" (id:1,bindings:http/:80:,https/:443:,net.tcp/808:,net .pipe/,net.msmq/localhost,msmq.formatname/localhost,state:Stopped)

SITE "Exodus" (id:2,bindings:http/*:8080:,state:Started)

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