make sock could not bind to address 443 when restarting apache installing trac and mod wsgi

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I m trying to install trac and mod wsgi over SSL  I tried to manually install it  but that didn t work out so well so I started to follow this  trac-on-ubuntu  I skipped the svn part because I d like to use git instead  After the first edit of httpd conf   WSGIScriptAlias  trac  var trac apache trac wsgi   lt Directory  var trac apache gt      WSGIApplicationGroup   GLOBAL      Order deny allow     Allow from all  lt  Directory gt    I restarted apache only to get this error     Restarting web server apache2                                                       98 Address already in use  make sock  could not bind to address      443                                                                         OK     Doing these showed nothing    netstat -anp   grep 443   fuser 443 tcp   Doing this didn t yield anything except the grep command that I ran   ps -aux   grep httpd   Why is it saying that something else is using the port when there s nothing showing up   EDIT  You guys are going to laugh at this  I had an extra Listen 443 in ports conf that shouldn t have been there  Removing that solved this

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I have checked and fixed the following and got it resolved -   httpd conf file at  etc httpd conf  Checked the listening IP and port e g  10 12 13 4 80 Removed extra listening port s  Restarted the httpd service to take

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In httpd conf instead   Listen   443   you need write Listen 127 0 0 1 443 It works for me

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You guys are going to laugh at this  I had an extra Listen 443 in ports conf that shouldn t have been there  Removing that solved this

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I made the mistake of incorrectly naming a backup file in the  etc httpd conf d directory  In the README it states that it alphabetically goes through all  conf files   I had created ssl- lt date  conf  meant to be a backup  and it was loading before ssl conf  It was binding the  443 port based on the ssl- lt date  conf and failing on the ssl conf   Once I renamed the backup file to ssl conf  lt date   the service started without issue   As a note  the server I m on is running RHEL 6

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I use apache version 2 4 27  also have this problem  solved it through modify  the conf extra httpdahssl conf comment the 18 line content Listen 443 https  it works fine

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For everyone else who has no duplicate Listen directives and no running processes on the port  check that you don t accidentally include ports conf twice in apache2 conf  as I did due to a bad merge

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I am using Ubuntu  I just disabled ssl mode of apache2 and it worked for me   a2dismod ssl   and then restarted apache2   service apache2 restart

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Let me add one more reason for the error  In httpd conf I included explicitly  Include etc apache24 extra httpd-ssl conf   while did not notice previous wildcard  Include etc apache24 extra   conf   Grepping 443 will not find this

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Thank you for you answers  on apache 2 4 x versions if have installed  ssl module using yum command  dont want to add the port  443 in httpd conf  main  file     To find out the port 443 in configure files     grep  443   etc httpd conf d     etc httpd conf d ssl conf Listen 443 https  etc httpd conf d ssl conf  lt VirtualHost  default  443 gt   etc httpd conf d ssl conf  ServerName www example com 443    grep  443   etc httpd conf httpd conf  Listen 443   Just remove the line or command it  Listen 443  from httpd conf file

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I meet the problem in windows7  phpeclipse  when I start the XAMPP  My solution is      1 Commented out the  xampp apache conf httpd conf -  line171  -   LoadModule ssl module modules mod ssl so 2 line539  -   Include conf extra httpd-ssl conf   or you can change the 443 port to another one

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I m adding another answer to this as I had the same problem and solved it the same way  I had installed SSL on apache2 using a2enmod ssl  which seems to have added an extra configuration in  etc apache2 ports conf   NameVirtualHost   80 Listen 80  NameVirtualHost   443 Listen 443   lt IfModule mod ssl c gt      Listen 443  lt  IfModule gt    lt IfModule mod gnutls c gt      Listen 443  lt  IfModule gt    I had to comment out the first Listen 443 after the NameVirtualHost   443 directive   NameVirtualHost   443  Listen 443   But I m thinking I can as well let it and comment the others  Anyway  thank you for the solution

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I had same issue  was due to multiple copies of ssl conf In  etc httpd conf d  - There should only be one

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I seconded Matthieu answer  I commented  Listen 443 in httpd-ssl file and apache can be started  Because the file already has VirtualHost default 443

[apache] "make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443" when restarting apache (installing trac and mod_wsgi)

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