What do 8181 and 1234 port does in Xampp server?

Question

I was watching a video on configuring xampp, where this guy changed ssl port from 443 to 8181 and main port from 80 to 1234. I searched on internet on iana.org, 1234 is for search-agent and 8181 is for intermapper. I don't know what this port has to with xampp. There is no reply from the guy who made that video. Does anyone here knows it?

Answer 1

cmiiw, think its because sometime those port are used by another program and will prevent xampp from using it

Answer 2

Yes as Taste has said some other program is using that ports like if you have installed the MySql server version 5.0 in any port and you installed the xampp server and the sql provided by xampp server is to used on that port then you have to change the port of anyone server to an free port by which youbcan use that in ports

Answer 3

as long as its free

Answer 4

You can change it to any free port like if something is stored in 443 you can change it to 403

Answer 5

So I can change to any port? Or 1234 and 8181 is necessary?

Answer 6

Ok, at first I thought it is to make xampp secured. Is it ok if I didn't do any changes to it and keep it as it is?