Probably because you need to start it as administrator (not just as a user with admin privileges). Try right clicking and do run as... If you try it from the command line, start cmd as administrator. It's running fine on Vista here (installed last Friday). -----Original Message----- From: B.A.S. [mailto:sturdyworks@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:13 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Vista install/start winsock bind error 10013 I get an error when installing Apache 2.2 on Windows Vista Ultimate from file: apache_2.2.9-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8h-r2.msi I get the same error below when attempting to start Apache from Windows Start Menu or with ./httpd.exe -k start: (OS 10013)An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs Exit 1 The top of the install.log file looks like: Installing Apache HTTP 2.0 server with DomainName = 127.0.0.1 ServerName = 127.0.0.1 ServerAdmin = sturdyworks@xxxxxxxxx ServerPort = 80 ServerSslPort = 80 ServerRoot = C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2 I can successfully ping "localhost" as 127.0.0.1, and have tried setting DomainName & ServerName to localhost. I do have administrator permissions on my user account, but double clicking on msi file or even opening a CShell as Administrator and running "msiexec.exe /I apache_2.2.9-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8h-r2.msi" but neither way works. Below is example of permissions. -rwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 15159 Nov 21 2004 ABOUT_APACHE.txt -rwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 87640 Jun 10 13:49 CHANGES.txt -rwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 4405 Feb 13 2008 INSTALL.txt -rwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 36833 Jun 13 21:58 LICENSE.txt -rwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 1323 Jun 13 21:58 NOTICE.txt -rwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 22104 Jun 13 21:58 OPENSSL-NEWS.txt -rwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 9780 Jun 13 21:58 OPENSSL-README.txt -rwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 2016 Jun 12 11:25 README-win32.txt -rwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 6094 Jan 9 2007 README.txt drwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 8192 Sep 27 10:33 bin drwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 0 Sep 27 10:33 cgi-bin drwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 4096 Sep 27 10:33 conf drwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 8192 Sep 27 10:33 error drwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 4096 Sep 27 10:33 htdocs drwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 40960 Sep 27 10:33 icons drwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 0 Sep 27 10:33 logs drwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 81920 Sep 27 10:33 manual drwxrwx---+ 1 +SYSTEM +SYSTEM 28672 Sep 27 10:33 modules --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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