Surely I know that same question is already posted here. However, when I searched it, the status is different from mine and I cannot understand the answers. Therefore I post my problem here. Sorry for duplicating issues.
My homepage suddenly doesn’t work and I found out that it failed to start httpd service. Following image is the result when I command ‘sudo service httpd start’
Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down AH00015: Unable to open logs [FAILED]
restart doesn’t work also.
$ sudo service httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down AH00015: Unable to open logs [FAILED]
What should I do to restart httpd service and revive my homepage?
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Answer
Error 98 usually occurs when some webserver is using the port, here 80, or The clean release port/address was not done.
If port is being used by other webserver, shutdown the server. You can find out which service is using port 80 by
netstat -pan |grep 80and then shutdown the service.
If the port was not released upon unclean shutdown of server, then
sudo service networking restartto release address/port combination from bind. This usually fixes error 98 for me.