I run a local apahe2 and PHP set up on my Ubuntu desktop to test stuff. Mainly so I can avoid uploading utter garbage when I am creating new code.
However after a particularly problematic upgrade it seems Apache is no longer running. When I try to start or restart it I get this:
* Restarting web server apache2 AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message (13)Permission denied: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 (13)Permission denied: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down AH00015: Unable to open logs Action 'start' failed. The Apache error log may have more information. [fail] * The apache2 instance did not start within 20 seconds. Please read the log files to discover problems
I couldn't rember where the error logs might be found (it has beena long while) but I googled it: Where are the Apache and PHP log files?
However /var/log/apache2/error.log is empty
How can I figure out what is wrong and fix it?
Notes: I am aware of the whole cannot determine FQDN thing and as I am running it only for me I've never been that bothered so long as it actually worked and I could test what I had written.
/etc/init.d/apache2 restartdue to not paying attention but normally/etc/init.d/apache2 startwhich results in pretty much the same blob of text. – Matthew Brown aka Lord Matt May 06 '15 at 18:44netstat -lptushow any program having port 80 open? – davidbaumann May 06 '15 at 18:49sudo service apache2 restart– Doug Smythies May 06 '15 at 18:50