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I am using a Ubuntu virtual machine.Where I installed OpenACS which depends upon AOLServer.To do so I had first shutdown Apache on this machine and then as per instructions given here

http://openacs.org/xowiki/ubuntu

Step 1) aptitude install postgresql

Step 2) aptitude install openacs

I had to shutdown Apache to do above installation. Now the installation finishes.So I can access http://localhost:8000

but when ever I try to start Apache on this machine which was shutdown during installation I see the error 

 service apache2 start
  * Starting web server apache2 (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

So I thought may be OpenACS installs AOLServer so Aolserver might be listening on port 80 I check 

 /etc/aolserver4/conf.d/openacs.sh

and here

AOL_USER=www-data
AOL_GROUP=www-data
AOL_ADDRESS=192.168.1.15
AOL_PORT=8000
RUN_DAEMON=yes

So AOLServer is not listening on port 80 upto here it is confirmed.

  netstat -tualp  | grep 80
tcp  0      0 somemachine.somedimain.:8000 *:*   LISTEN   21321/aolserver4-ns

so netstat shows only 8000 in use. Then why am I unable to start Apache in this case?

Edit as ooshro below pointed out to check netstat -tualp | grep \:www the output
I got was
tcp 0 0 localhost:www *:* LISTEN 2883/aolserver4-nsd

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To check:

netstat -tualpn | grep 80

or 

netstat -tualp  | grep \:www

without 'n' options, 80 resolve to www.

Edit "/etc/aolserver4/aolserver4.tcl":

array set debian_config {
HOSTNAME localhost
ADDRESS 127.0.0.1
HTTP_PORT 8080
HTTPS_PORT 443
}

Then restart aolserver4 and apache2

/etc/init.d/aolserver4 restart
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
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  • you are right the second netstat showed me aolserver-nsd listening on www service.
    – Registered User
    Feb 23, 2011 at 13:36
  • @Registered User I update answer
    – ooshro
    Feb 23, 2011 at 14:14
  • I will bookmark your answer currently for me thing has worked.
    – Registered User
    Feb 23, 2011 at 21:56
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Ok Finally I resoved this problem.The default openacs install listens on port 8000, to avoid conflict with the default aolserver listening on port 80.

I had to put RUN_DAEMON=no in /etc/default/aolserver4 file although all the lines of this file were commented out but I still needed to add

RUN_DAEMON=no

That is what worked for me.

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