Subject: Re: [vserver] apache binding issues
From: "Stelios M." <steliosm@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:46:18 +0200

Chances are that the conflict is on the IPv6 addresses.
You should be able to see what is going on at the network stack using
the command netstat. The first apache instance is probably using IPv6
addresses to bind to as well.

~stelios

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:54:09PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>
>> I'm running a Debian lenny host with several lenny guests. I'm
>> having trouble making Apache bind to a specific IP via explict
>> Listen x.x.x.x:80. I'm getting a
>>
>> (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to
>> address xx.xx.xxx.xx:80 no listening sockets available,
>> shutting down Unable to open logs failed!
>
>> Whenever I don't use an explicit listen I have Apache on host
>> bind to the guest interfaces, which is not something I want.
>>
>> Any idea what's going wrong here?
>
> well, as the message says, address already in use :)
>
> check for overlaping addresses, like e.g. x.x.x.x and 0
> or ipv4 and ipv6 ones, or just another Listen directive
> with exactly the same address ...
>
> HTH,
> Herbert
>
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