[GLLUG] Okay - That was weird (was apache blah blah)

[Charles Ulrich]

On Thursday 21 June 2007 10:11, Benjamin Cathey wrote:
> Well - I went into the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and removed
> the line I changed.  Originally it was Listen *:80, which gave an
> error about 0.0.0.0:80 (even though the Fedora System Generated file
> /etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf specified Listen
> 192.168.1.205:80) so I changed it to Listen 192.168.1.208:80 in that
> file (httpd.conf)
>
> I just commented that out and it seems to have started fine and the
> test page is up.  My only question is WHY?
>
> Guessing got it working but I really want to understand what the
> problem was.  Is it that the IP is mentioned in two files so it was
> trying to 'double allocate'??

You're probably right. When Apache sees "Listen *:80", it tries to bind 
to port 80 on all IP addresses on the machine.

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Charles Ulrich
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