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Apache (Linux Red Hat 4.1.x) fails to start with message: "Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address".

# /etc/init.d/httpd start
Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: 
make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:8000
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
                                                       [FAILED]

Already tried to do:

killall -9 httpd

It looks like Apache is not running. The port 8000 if free so nothing prevents Apache to occupy it. (nginx is on :80 as reverse proxy)

 # netstat -tulpn| grep :80
 tcp  0   0 0.0.0.0:8001    0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN 17181/DarwinStreami
 tcp  0   0 0.0.0.0:80      0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN 7962/nginx.conf

Possibly someone will have any thoughts on how to fix this?

UPD1: Apache config options are:

ServerRoot "/etc/httpd"
PidFile run/httpd.pid
Timeout 120
KeepAlive Off
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 5

<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers       1
MinSpareServers   5
MaxSpareServers   20
ServerLimit     200
MaxClients  200
MaxRequestsPerChild 2000

User apache
Group apache

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

NameVirtualHost *:8000

UPD2: Pid is not found:

# ls /etc/httpd/run/*.pid
/etc/httpd/run/crond.pid          /etc/httpd/run/sshd.pid
/etc/httpd/run/dhclient-eth0.pid  /etc/httpd/run/streamingadminserver.pid
/etc/httpd/run/haldaemon.pid      /etc/httpd/run/syslogd.pid
/etc/httpd/run/messagebus.pid     /etc/httpd/run/syslog-ng.pid
/etc/httpd/run/nginx.pid          /etc/httpd/run/xfs.pid

UPD3: server reboot doesn't helps ;)

UPD4: nc -l 8000 works OK, so the problem is not with a 8000 port but with Apache itself.

UPD5: "# /usr/sbin/lsof -i :8000" - outputs nothing

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  • Could you post the main part of your Apache config (with any identifying information taken out, of course)
    – Andy Smith
    Dec 2, 2011 at 13:50
  • updated initial question Dec 2, 2011 at 13:58
  • selinux problem? Add 8000 to the httpd ports.
    – AndreasM
    Dec 2, 2011 at 14:12
  • in case of "selinux" problem is can produce the "Starting httpd: (13)Permission denied" but not "Address already in use" Dec 2, 2011 at 14:15
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    Can you share the output of lsof -i :8000 ?
    – thinice
    Dec 2, 2011 at 14:46

2 Answers 2

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You have Listen directive for the same socket multiple times. Use grep -r Listen /etc/httpd/conf.d/*.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to find the culprit.

From apache documentation:

Error condition
Multiple Listen directives for the same ip address and port will result in an Address already in use error message.

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    Thanks!! "# grep -r Listen /etc/httpd/" produced the list of directives where I was able to locale 8000 port value multiple times. Hope this thread will help everyone to debug such issues in advance. Dec 2, 2011 at 15:06
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I get this sometimes when the PID file wasn't removed during the previous apache stop. If the PID is there, try removing it before starting up again.

I also get this sometimes when I'm trying to start apache up using an account other than what apache was configured to run as.

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  • according to Apache configuration we have "PidFile run/httpd.pid", where can I find that file? Dec 2, 2011 at 14:00
  • Ok,finally wasn't able to locale that file under "/etc/httpd/run/" Dec 2, 2011 at 14:22
  • Anyway thanks for your attention! My case was about accidentally declaring "Listen" multiple times, while dealing with sub-domains and multiple system administrators on the same server :) Dec 2, 2011 at 15:08

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