On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 06:41:24PM +0200, Joost de Heer wrote: > > Cannot assign requested address: make_sock: could not bind > > to address 208.97.158.169:1443 > > no listening sockets available, shutting down > > Unable to open logs > > Is the network up before you start Apache? If your machine doesn't have > this IP address yet, it'll fail. Well, of course. The machine has a number of IP addresses bound to the same interface. That indeed is the problem. I didn't even consider that because there's another web server bound to that same IP address. In fact there's a number of web servers that run and they are get spawned by an init.d script called "httpd". The reason I didn't consider it is because of this: $ ls /etc/rc2.d/ | egrep '(ifp|httpd)' S20httpd S20httpd2 S91ifp_httpd S20httpd starts the server listening on port 80, and S91ifp_httpd starts the server listening on port 83/1443. So, logically you would think the interface is up when S91 runs if port 80 is coming up. I guess there's some Dreamhost magic happening in the background to make the port 80 server wait until the interface is up. I've got a support request into Dreamhost, but of course they will think it's not their problem since I'm running my own init.d script. That S91 script is the last in the run-level so the interfaces are coming up some other way. That's one of the problems with using a "managed" dedicated server. > May I ask why you're binding on a specific address, instead of all > interfaces? Multiple web servers. -- Bill Moseley moseley@xxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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