Unable to start httpd after installing openvpn on port 80

[Hillside]

Okay, i have installed openvpn, and used port 80. before installing openvpn, i first stopped httpd for port 80 to be used by openvpn. Now, i removed openvpn by doing

service openvpn stop 

and

yum remove openvpn 

but when i

service httpd start 

Here's what comes out:

[root@sound Downloads]# service httpd start
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]
[root@sound Downloads]# service openvpn stop
openvpn: unrecognized service
[root@sound Downloads]#

Please help me revive httpd.. LoL

Hillside Reviewed by Hillside on 11th Jun 2011. Unable to start httpd after installing openvpn on port 80 Okay, i have installed openvpn, and used port 80. before installing openvpn, i first stopped httpd for port 80 to be used by openvpn. Now, i removed openvpn by doing service openvpn stop and yum remove openvpn but when i service httpd start Here's what comes out: # service httpd start 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 Rating: 5

[Sp32]

try

killall -9 ns.pl

then

service httpd start

If that doesn't work maybe something else is using port 80:

http://inmyplace.info/2008/01/05/address-already-in-use-make_sock-could-not-bind-to-address-apache-httpd-error/

[Hillside]

ns.pl: no process killed

No Luck mate, i guess i'll just have to reformat the vps Damn, 1 sborg ticket wasted

[okone]

grep your port 80 and then kill the process you find using it.

[soft2050]

ns.pl: no process killed

No Luck mate, i guess i'll just have to reformat the vps Damn, 1 sborg ticket wasted

Try the second method given by Sp32
That has worked with me manytimes when i get error likes this (but in mysql)

[Lifetalk]

service openvpnas stop

It's openvpnas, not openvpn (as = access server). Not sure if that'll work since you removed it via yum. But a reboot should fix it since openvpn is not installed so it obviously won't bind to port 80.

Alternatively, find out the process that's binding to port 80 (use netstat), then use the 'pidof' command to find the pid of that program, and kill it with the 'kill PID' command.