Apache2 start up error

Thanks for the reply.

Reply I am running as root, can you explain further what you mean by "if selinux is in use, its not configured for apache"?

If you would like the ssh details to take a look, I am willing to provide them.

to verify selinux
selinuxenabled && echo OK

to verify if port 80 is occupied
netstat -ltnp | grep :80

to verify user You are logged in
id
both error usually are either due to "apache already running" or not enought priviledges.

Below are the results of running these commands

# selinuxenabled && echo OK
bash: selinuxenabled: command not found
# netstat -ltnp | grep :80

I think the issue is with the configuration files or priveleges as there is no service running on port 80

Could it be related to having multiple Listen commands for the same ports throughout the .conf files?

could you do a simple "telnet 127.0.0.1 80" while logged in to the machine.

we are looing for connection refused response.
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

if you are getting something else -- most likely there are something running and listening on port 80.

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(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80

I receive a "connection refused" response... this must be related to the configuration files, if I remove all the special configuration options and only have one Listen 80 then the server starts but of course not of the virtual hosts are configured (which is necessary)

hi

connection refused means that nothing is running and binding to port 80.  So this is good.

multiple Listen directive should be fine - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html#listen

However, there is a note that may be what you are experiencing.

Error condition
Multiple Listen directives for the same ip address and port will result in an Address already in use error message.

Interestingly if I change the ports from 80 to 8080 then I recieve this error

vhosts.d # apache2ctl start
 * Starting apache2 ...
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[Thu Oct 04 14:56:32 2007] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs                                                       [ !! ]

Notice that the complaint is now about the SSL port 443, then I change that port to 444 (just for testing) and then this is the response from apache2ctl:

vhosts.d # apache2ctl start
 * Starting apache2 ...
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[Thu Oct 04 15:00:51 2007] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHos  [ !! ]


Notice the [!!] is in red, but its not clear what error actually made apache2 quit