localhost xampp curl port 80 error - php

Question

I seem to be having an issue with a single url endpoint while cUrl from local xampp.
I get an error message of Failed to connect to localhost port 1080: Connection refused even when I set curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, 80);.
But this only happens from a particular url (without ssl http://), other urls with https:// is fine. And all other cUrl to different endpoints are fine.
On a live server, the problematic endpoint, same code everything works fine.
Can anyone help me understand why this might be happening?
My http.conf: ServerName localhost:80
complete code
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
// "Cache-Control: max-age=0",
// "Connection: keep-alive",
// "Keep-Alive: 300",
"Content-Type: application/json",
'Api-Key: ' . $apiKey,
));
$output = curl_exec($ch);
//curl_easy_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
$errmsg = curl_error ( $ch );
$httpcode = curl_getinfo($ch,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
$httpHeaders = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r($ch);
echo $httpcode;
print_r($httpHeaders);
print_r($errmsg); // Failed to connect to localhost port 1080: Connection refused
after spending the entire day, the fix was to set an empty value for proxy and use port 80
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, ''); //!! FIX
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']);

Answer 1

I had the same issue , i solved it by running apache on other port, you should to edit your httpd.conf