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I was trying to get passenger to work on my home computer and ran into this problem.

I get this error when I try to start Apache.

(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80

I get Syntax OK when I test Apache.

this is where I set port 80 in my Apache config file.

 52 NameVirtualHost *:80

 53 Listen 80

Not sure what I am doing wrong.

Gareth
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Nate
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2 Answers2

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The problem will be that you didn't start Apache as root - by default on any unix based operating system only root can bind a process to a port below 1024.

Your choices are to either use a port higher than 1023 and remember to specify it when you connect, or to ensure that you start Apache as root. Unfortunately not being a Mac user I can't provide details of how to do the second.

Cry Havok
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Does this help?

  1. Go to my System Preferences.app and open “Sharing” pane. Disabling the Web-Sharing service.

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  2. Launch Terminal.app and stopping httpd (apache) with the following command:

    sudo apachectl -k stop

  3. Going into the Activity Monitor.app and searching for “httpd”. Select both processes and click on “Stop”.

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  4. Shutdown and start my Mac (do a proper shutdown, not restart!)

  5. When Mac was back up running: go in to Terminal.app and execute:

    sudo apachectl -k start
Gareth
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