I am having problem with Apache as it cant restart because it already uses its port

Question

 I am trying to restart apache and it's showing an error:

(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down

But when I am trying to check who uses it, it points to itself:

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      22656/apache2
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      22656/apache2

Can anyone help me with this query?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Here is what you can do.

Free the catch memory and make sure you are not declaring Listen 80 twice in .conf files.

For example, you might have it both in ports.conf and inn sites-enabled/www.conf.

To find out, use: grep -ri listen /etc/apache2

I hope that the above information would be helpful for you.