How to disable port 443

Question

I have installed Apache 2.x.x. But right now I have uninstalled it from my pc. I try to install XAMPP, but the apache could not installed correctly.

Error: Could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443

Answer 1

It appears another process is bound to tcp port 443. You can either change the configuration for that process to use a different port or change your Apache config to use something other than 443.

To find which process is using port 443, you can use lsof -i :443

To change the port that Apache uses, edit your conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf file. Change any instances of "443" to "8443" (or whichever available port you prefer)

Answer 2

Did you start your service as root ? 443 port is before 1024, so it is reserved to root user. Check if something run on 443 port, with netstat -pntl | grep 443 (with root user)

Answer 3

Try changing your address from 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1