Fix: Can’t run Web Server with Skype

Michael — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:48:49 +0000

So, you’ve recently just installed Skype and now notice that every time you restart your computer (or local web server for that matter) you get an error. The ports are already in use? No problem. Why Skype decided to use those exact ports, I’ll never know.. Anyways, here’s the fix:

Solution 1: Disable Skype Port

Load up skype
Select Tools->Options
Click on the Advanced Tab
Click on the Connection Tab
Uncheck “Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections”

Solution 2: Load Your Webserver First

The alternative to changing the Skype settings (though I don’t know why you wouldn’t want to), is to load your web server before you load Skype (effectively accomplishing the same thing). If Skype is already loaded, close the program out, load your web server, then re-open it.

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Password Protect PHPMyAdmin Without HTPASSWD

Michael — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:02:49 +0000

If you’re like me, and you like testing all of your web development stuffs on your own computer before pushing it onto your live environment you have something like XAMPP installed on your system. For me, I use Windows Vista, so I have the win32 version of XAMPP. For the past few days I’ve been trying to figure out how to make that neat password dialog come up, so that I could prevent unauthorized access to my PHPMyAdmin. For some reason the HTPASSWD dealy wasn’t working out for me, so I continued my research until I discovered how to activate PHPMyAdmin’s built-in password protection system.

How To Do It

1. Make sure you have your Username/Password already set up in PHPMyAdmin ( Under Privileges )

2. Make sure you have all proper Privileges setup for that Username

3. In your PHPMyAdmin Folder (located in your xampp directory) open up config.inc.php

4. Change the following line:

FROM:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘config‘;

TO:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘http‘;

5. Save and Refresh your PHPMyAdmin in your browser- You’re not ready to log in!

( Where to get XAMPP )

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Fix: Can’t run Web Server with Skype

Password Protect PHPMyAdmin Without HTPASSWD