Apache – Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008This error message can be caused by an improper shut down, the apache processes are still hanging around and apachectl restart won’t work.
Solution
just kill off the hanging processes:
# fuser 80/tcp
80/tcp: 3010 3702 4088 16754
# kill -n 9 3010
# kill -n 9 3702
# kill -n 9 4088
# kill -n 9 16754
# apachectl start
or if there’s loads of processes use
# for i in $(fuser 80/tcp);do kill -n 9 $i;done
to kill them all off