inmyplace.info » apache http://inmyplace.info Thoughts and writings of someone loving linux, the web and his iphone Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:06:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address – Apache – HTTPD Error http://inmyplace.info/2008/01/05/address-already-in-use-make_sock-could-not-bind-to-address-apache-httpd-error/ http://inmyplace.info/2008/01/05/address-already-in-use-make_sock-could-not-bind-to-address-apache-httpd-error/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:47:16 +0000 hmorandell http://inmyplace.info/2008/01/05/address-already-in-use-make_sock-could-not-bind-to-address-apache-httpd-error/ I was getting the following error on one my servers, after updating apache2 and php5

 Starting web server (apache2)...(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
failed!

This is what I did to fix the problem

netstat -lnp | grep '80'#output
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN     18712/apache2

In my case the output showed that apache2 was already using the port, although no sites was working and it was not even possible to stop the apache2 daemon. I ran the following to learn more

ps 18712
PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
18712 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start

I killed the apache2 process, which was blocking everything

kill 19712

and restarted apache

/etc/init.d/apache start

and everything was working fine again. Hopefully this is useful for someone..

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