This 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

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