I spent an hour on this problem today. There are lots of references in Google but no solution that I could find, so I thought I would post it here to save someone else the grief. Is that good netiquette?
I upgraded to apache 1.3.29 using apt-get but when I tried to browse to "localhost" the connection appeared to hang. Apache error log gave me: Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 I tried /etc/init.d/apache restart, but to no avail. I tried lots of combinations of Listen, BindAddress etc. in httpd.conf. Eventually I just rebooted the machine in disgust and lo! everything is good. I've since restarted apache without further problems. I'm happy. It appears something was tying up port 80, and I wonder if it was the old instance of apache still running. Is that possible? Unfortunately I didn't keep the output from netstat from when it was NOT working. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
