Failed to start the Apache service

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to start httpd service in my Linux system, but it is showing me the below error.

httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2017-03-05 15:52:12 PST; 6s ago
     Docs: man:httpd(8)
           man:apachectl(8)
  Process: 4115 ExecStop=/bin/kill -WINCH ${MAINPID} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 4110 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -DFOREGROUND (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 4110 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jun 22 11:52:12 localhost.localdomain httpd[4110]: (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
Jun 22 11:52:12 localhost.localdomain httpd[4110]: (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address ...0.0:80
Jun 22 11:52:12 localhost.localdomain httpd[4110]: no listening sockets available, shutting down
Jun 22 11:52:12 localhost.localdomain httpd[4110]: AH00015: Unable to open logs
Jun 22 11:52:12 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 22 11:52:12 localhost.localdomain kill[4115]: kill: cannot find process ""
Jun 22 11:52:12 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 22 11:52:12 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.
Jun 22 11:52:12 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state.
Jun 22 11:52:12 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: httpd.service failed.
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How can I solve this error?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

I think port no. is busy. Some other program is using this port no. You need to find out what program is occupying port 80. You can use the below-given command to find out the status of port 80.

$ netstat -tnlp | grep :80

Then kill that process and restart the apache service.