(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443

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I ran into this problem after I installed mod-rails on a cent OS server.

To get my changes to take … I kept running

httpd -k graceful

and it kept working until, all of a sudden, it didn’t.

This was the error I got

[XXXX@XXXXXXXXX]# httpd -k graceful
httpd not running, trying to start
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443
no listening sockets available, shutting down
unable to open logs

argh!

Then I found this marvellous blog posting on how to fix the “Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address – Apache – HTTPD Error”

Here is what I did. (click to enlarge)

worked like a charm too.