SharePoint 2007 - Ports

The first issue I hit when installing SharePoint 2007 was a port clash.

I installed the evaluation version on a Windows 2003 Server. This server was already serving some sites through IIS, on the Default Web Site. By default Sharepoint installs its own default web site on port 80. Then it bounces IIS. The Shrepoint default web site comes up first, so the orginal default web site won't start up aas it is also trying to use port 80.

See this MSDN Forum Thread about this issue. There is a solution at the end, but it's not very friendly.

I guess this wouldn't be a problem on a real deployment, as IIS wouldn't be hosting other sites on port 80

For my purposes I got round this by hosting my sites as Virtual Directories on the SharetPoint - 80 Web Site.