apache cant bind to port

doug doug at fledge.watson.org
Tue Dec 28 07:38:49 PST 2004


When that has happened to me it usually was because apache did not shutdown
cleanly. Try killall httpd. I suspect if you had done ps after stopping apache
you would have seen a hung process.

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, whitevamp wrote:

> 
>  I just did a portupgrade -aRrCc
>  and now when I goto start apache i get this error message in the log files
> 
>  [crit] (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to port 80
> 
>  I have tryed starting it with ethere apachectl start or httpd , as root.
> and
> 1.when to  /usr/ports/www/apache13 , and did a make deinstall and then a
>  make clean , then a make install. still same thing after words.
>  2. decided to go and try to install apache13-with-ssl , nop same thing
>  there.
>  3. ps -aux | grep http.
> 4.  Tryed apachectl stop; apachectl start.
> 5.. Tryed netstat -an | grep LISTEN to see if something is bound to tcp/80.
> 
> so why am i getting this error ?? i could see it if i had compiled it as a
>  non super user , and / or trying to run it as a non superuser , but i
>  compiled and installed it as root and trying to run it as root.
>  and thats exeactly what its acting like . I tryd setting the port to 8080
>  and it worked all execpt for it couldnt write to the pid file .
> 
> 
>  vampextream# uname -a
>  FreeBSD vampextream.com 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #3: Wed Dec
> 8
>  20:33:13 PST 2004     root at vampextream.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VAMPEXTREAM
>  i386
>  vampextream# httpd -V
>  Server version: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)
> 
> 
>  if theres any othere information that you need let me know..
> and thankx inadvance for any help on this issue
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