Question

I’ve run nginx once and now I cannot get rid of it. when I run apache on my server localhost still point to that welcome to nginx i dont know why. I’m on windows 7.

Answer 1

To kill nginx process.

If you are sure nginx is actually running, You just need to kill nginx.exe process and re-run apache.

Open Run (Window key + R) OR commend prompt (cmd.exe) and Paste below command,

taskkill /F /IM nginx.exe

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To find which process is holding port 80.

Here is netstat command & output to find which process is holding port 80.

C:\> netstat -n -a -o | findstr "0.0.0.0:80"
  TCP    0.0.0.0:80             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       1588

^ Here, 1588 is PID of process holding port 80.

So, below is sample command to get Process name from PID 1588.

C:\> tasklist /svc /FI "PID eq 1588"

Image Name                     PID Services
========================= ======== ============================================
nginx.exe                     1588 N/A

So, it shows that nginx.exe is holding port 80.