cKan Failed installation on restarting Apache service

Question

I have installed ckan from this tutorial http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/installing/install-from-package.html

until I came to part 4. Restart Apache and Nginx, I run "sudo service apache2 restart" and got this error:

• Restarting web server apache2 (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:8080 (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:8080 no listening sockets available, shutting down AH00015: Unable to open logs Action 'start' failed. The Apache error log may have more information.

Can anyone help me with this out.

Regards, Sounay

Answer 1

You're telling Apache to serve on port 8080 but get error 'Address already in use'. Sounds like you are running another server on your machine - port 8080 is a pretty common port to use for web apps.

You can see what is running on port 8080 like this:

sudo netstat -plnt | grep :8080

Now you need to move a server to another port number (e.g. 8081) - either the service you discover, or ckan.

To change CKAN's port, edit ckan's apache & nginx config files and replace '8080' everywhere with the new port number.