Title: Bitnami Installation Error
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Bitnami Installation Error

 *  [finnishwaterforum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finnishwaterforum/)
 * (@finnishwaterforum)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitnami-installation-error/)
 * Hello there!
 * On wordpress’s how to create multisites, it said that I should install ‘Bitnami’
   which I tried to do but there was an error message something about port number
   80.
 * I googled a bunch of answers but could not for my life figure it out.
 * What can I do?
 * The purpose was to create one more site in another language with slightly different
   content.
 * Your help is appreciated!
    Thanks. Jini

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 *  [Kor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/korchung/)
 * (@korchung)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitnami-installation-error/#post-6474354)
 * Hey,
 * Have you seen the tutorial written by Bitnami on how to create Multisites on 
   WordPress. [Link](https://wiki.bitnami.com/Applications/BitNami_WordPress_Multisite).
   Let me know which step on the tutorial you are not familiar with.
 * Regards
 * KC
 *  Thread Starter [finnishwaterforum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finnishwaterforum/)
 * (@finnishwaterforum)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitnami-installation-error/#post-6474494)
 * Hiii
    Yes, I have looked at it and started the installation. On the link you 
   sent, this is the part where I get stuck. I get the error message and do not 
   know how to move on. I use Windows. :: WordPress multisite requires to be installed
   in the default port: 80. For this reason it is necessary on Linux systems to 
   run the installer as root user in Linux machines.
 * If you see the following error message:
 * “Unable to bind to the 80 port number. WordPress Multisite only supports this
   port for the Apache server.”
 * It is possible that you are not running the installer as root user or is there
   any other application using this port (for example Skype or a web server). To
   run the installer as the root user on Linux, you will need to execute it using
   sudo (for example if you are running Ubuntu) :
 * sudo /path/to/bitnami-wordpress-VERSION-multisite-linux-installer.run
 * or become root first with the following command, and then execute the installer:
 * su -l
 * If you are using OS X, the installer will ask you for the Administrator password
   automatically. You can also run the Stack as root user from a Terminal:
 * $ sudo /path/to/bitnami-wordpress-VERSION-multisite-linux-installer.app/Contents/
   MacOS/installbuilder.sh
 *  Thread Starter [finnishwaterforum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finnishwaterforum/)
 * (@finnishwaterforum)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitnami-installation-error/#post-6474495)
 * I deleted Skype but that didn’t help..
 *  [Kor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/korchung/)
 * (@korchung)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitnami-installation-error/#post-6474500)
 * Hello,
 * Try installing it with “**Run as Administrator**“, and then restart your pc. 
   Start Bitnami and see how it goes.
 * I’m not sure if it works, but at least give it a try.
 * Regards
 * KC
 *  Thread Starter [finnishwaterforum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finnishwaterforum/)
 * (@finnishwaterforum)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitnami-installation-error/#post-6474502)
 * Hm but the error message still wont let me install wordpress multisite to begin
   with.
 * I click save file. Run. And then the same error message pops up.
 * ”There has been an error. Unable to bind to the 80 port number. WordPress Multisite
   only supports this port for the Apache server.”
 *  Thread Starter [finnishwaterforum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finnishwaterforum/)
 * (@finnishwaterforum)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitnami-installation-error/#post-6474503)
 * Oh I tried Run as Administrator – still won’t work 🙁
 *  [Kor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/korchung/)
 * (@korchung)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitnami-installation-error/#post-6474510)
 * Hello,
 * Looks like you have got to find a way to free port 80 in your machine.
 * Kindly, refer to this [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/788348/how-do-i-free-my-port-80-on-localhost-windows](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/788348/how-do-i-free-my-port-80-on-localhost-windows)
 * Regards
 * KC
 *  [Aadhaar card](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aadhaar/)
 * (@aadhaar)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitnami-installation-error/#post-6474584)
 * Or else, you just simple change your default port 80 in your config file to some
   other say port 81 and access your site using [http://localhost:81](http://localhost:81)

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