Why wont apache start?

Question by Gorbit: Why wont apache start?
I have just installed Fedora 9 on my machine and I am trying to run the version of apache that was installed on it.

The problem I am having is that if try to bind to ports 80 or 443 and then start it using “# service httpd start” it fails to start and says the following:

Starting httpd: (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
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
[FAILED]

Does anyone know why this may be happening?
Also, I forgot to mention in my initial post. I have checked to make sure that nothing is bound to port 80 using “netstat -anp | grep :80″ – which returned nothing.

Best answer:

Answer by CityZen
It looks like you left out a hostname or IP address specification somewhere, since [::]:80 or 0.0.0.0:80 is not a valid host:port specification.

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