Reputation: 9857

Starting apache fails (could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80)

Update: Already fixed, it seems that one of VirtualHosts configurations files was wrong in sites-enabled.

I have Ubuntu 11.10

When I run the command to start apache2:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

I get the following error message:

Starting web server apache2
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName (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 Action 'start' failed.

I run this command in order to get the process that is using the port 80:

sudo netstat -ltnp | grep ':80'

Which returns this output:

tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      1176/

To know which process is I run this command:

ps -wlp1176

That returns:

F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR SZ WCHAN  TTY          TIME CMD
5 D    33  1176     1  0  80   0 -     0 exit   ?        00:00:00 apache2

But if I try to kill the process:

sudo kill -9 1176

It doesn't kill it, if I run again the netstat command still appears listening and apache start fails.

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 58

Answers (12)

Krishnamoorthy Acharya

Reputation: 4254

use either

sudo killall httpd

sudo killall apache2

check if some one using the 80 port

sudo netstat -tulpn| grep :80

The restart

sudo service httpd start

then restart the server.It took me a whole day to understand the issue

Upvotes: 5

rocketsami

Reputation: 1

You can only have listen PORTNUMBER in only one file of .conf. Do not put it in multiple files. Try it :)

Upvotes: 0

Satish Chauhan

Reputation: 116

It look like other process is using port 80.

$ netstat -anp | grep

eg. $ netstat -anp | grep 80

by above you get process name, if you want to use port then you need to stop the process or change the port

Upvotes: 1

luqman

Reputation: 11

I fixed it by using below procedure. Run below command as root user.

root# ps aux |grep apache

It will show you Apache PID, just kill that PIDs and restart Apache Server.

Upvotes: 0

Benjamin Crouzier

Reputation: 41945

It may be skype or nginx using the port 80.

Try shutting down skype, or running: sudo /etc/init.d/nginx stop

Upvotes: 18

Mister

Reputation: 9

What I would do is simply check if the following is set in your /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-domain-name.com.conf

SSLEngine on 
SSLCertificateFile /your/path/to/your-domain.com.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /your/path/to/your-domain.com.key
SSLCACertificateFile /your/path/to/your-domain.com.ca-bundle

and there aren't any mistyped directories or anything else that would not supposed to be in your .conf file. It did the trick for me as re-starting and killing the processes did not help at all. It did not start anyway.

Upvotes: 0

Sam

Reputation: 376

Try this, it works for me…

sudo netstat -ltnp | grep ':80'

This would return the following:

tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 1047/apache2

Then

sudo kill -9 1047

Then I was able to restart Apache and everything was working fine.

Upvotes: 3

sreeks devan

Reputation: 13

This will happen because of repeated installation of apache or port is using by another service

sudo lsof -i | grep "httpd"

You will find process id and listening port of service. Then check

cd /proc/(process id of http)

Then kill that process using command

kill -9 pid

now

sudo netstat -nltp

again kill the process

syntax:-

kill -9 pid

and now start apache

sudo ./apachectl start

Upvotes: 1

Philip Lowe

Reputation: 73

I had the same problem

For me, apache was already running but it was running the wrong way.

Killing processes didnt work because a daemon kept reinstantiating it.

apachectl stop

resolved the issue.

Upvotes: 5

mk_yo

Reputation: 780

Go to device manager, select “show hidden devices” from menu/view, go to “Non-Plug and Play Driver”/HTTP, double click it to disable it (and disable or manual some services depended on it). Reboot and enjoy!

Upvotes: 1