Hi RiggsFolly
Thanks for your assistance.
I think I have disabled Microsoft IIS 8.0 by doing this -
From a "elevated" command prompt ( run as administrator) run the following command:
rem stop IIS sc stop W3SVC REM change the service startup to disabled! sc config W3SVC start= disabled
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I have changed the listen and server name ports back to 80 in the httpd.conf file. Apache service will no longer start up again. It appears that another Microsoft process has taken Port 80 - Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
I have since followed the instructions here
[
www.ferolen.com]
It is now working. Turning off web deployment agent service did the trick.
Thank you so much for your input and nudging me in the right direction. I am going to celebrate by having a delicious coffee