How about the output from: netstat -na | grep LISTEN How many "Listen" commands do you have in your httpd.conf ? Please respond to users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: (bcc: Dan Mitton/YD/RWDOE) Subject: Re: HTTPD won't start. Fails with error message. LSN: Not Relevant User Filed as: Not a Record Connect to address 127.0.0.1 Connection refused. "Lose not thy airspeed lest the ground rises up and smites thee." - Anon. Richard de Vries wrote: > It appears something else is already listening on port 80 and as such Apache is unable to bind to that port. > > What happens when you do a "telnet localhost 80". Do you get connected? > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mike - W0TMW <mikew@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 5:19:43 PM > Subject: HTTPD won't start. Fails with error message. > > I'm building a server based on Fedora 7 and httpd won't start. I'm > running out of space on another server and this one is intended as a > replacement. I've looked through the archives, FAQs and while this > issue is mentioned, that's all I can find---a mention with no help for > resolution. > > The error is: > > Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to > address 192.168.1.300:80 No listening sockets available, shutting down. > Unable to open logs [Failed] > > I have another webserver that works just fine. The log directory have > identical owners/groups permissions so there shouldn't a permissions > problem for the logfiles. Plus the httpd.conf is identical. One works > the other servers doesn't. > > Could anyone point me towards resolving this? > > Mike W > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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