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Asked: 2026-05-31T13:37:22+00:00

I’m trying to restart my apache server using the comand: service httpd restart and

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I’m trying to restart my apache server using the comand:

service httpd restart

and I’m getting the following error : 

Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]  
Starting httpd: [Sun Mar 18 12:28:14 2012] [warn] module proxy_ajp_module is already    loaded, skipping  
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80  
(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                                        [FAILED]

what could be the problem?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Normally a “could not bind to address” error means that another process is bound to port 80 preventing Apache from starting up on that port. This can happen if you are you using a caching server or another web server that is also using port 80, If this is the case, stop this alternate process and try restarting Apache again.

    If you are not sure what is bound to port 80 you can use netstat to find out what is e.g.

    netstat -lnp

    However in your case it seems that the errors you are getting is because Apache is not being stopped before the restart attempts to start it i.e. the restart command tries to first stop the server and then start it again in a single command. Try:

    service httpd stop
service httpd start

    If you can figure out why the stop fails then you can also figure out why the restart fails.

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