Please tell us what OS you are using? - we need to know this if you want help. As allready mentioned, only one application can attach itself to one port address. It appears you may allready have a web server listening on port 80 unless you are not starting apache as root. Keith In theory, theory and practice are the same; In practice they are not. On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Ian Western wrote: > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > From: Ian Western <wezz100uk@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [users@httpd] Apache installation problem -socket address usage > > Hi everyone, > can anyone out there help me. I'm trying to install > Apache but whenever I try to run it, I get a window with > the text below: > "(OS 10048) Only one usage of each socket address > <protocol/network address/port> is normally permitted. > :make_sock could not bind to address 0.0.0.0.80 -no > listening sockets available, shutting down. Unable to > open logs." > I've managed to iron out a few problems before I got to > this stage but this has got me stumped. Can anybody > help? > > Many thanks, > Ian Western --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx