(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 - error

I am running FreeBSD (Linux like…) without NGINX and had this same problem. It appears that there was a httpd process that was hung. Apparently, this happens every so often. I listed all processes and grep out the httpd process to see what was hung. If you do not manually kill the process, it should timeout eventually. The eventual timeout is probably why the problem fixed itself in some of the previous comments. In my situation, I went ahead and manually killed the process and then started apache. Here’s the commands:

== Notice the commands might vary slightly for Linux ==

= Show processes hung = ps wax | grep httpd

= Kill Process ID 1234 = kill 1234

= Start Apache24 = apachectl start

= Verify it is running = service apache24 status

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I hope this helps.

For me it was NextCloud causing the issue. I installed it using snap so to remove i just did:

sudo snap remove nextcloud

And apache started right up.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Also, you can see what processes are using the port by doing:

sudo netstat -peanut | grep ":80"

That may give you a better idea of what’s causing the problem.

I had the same ssue. The problem is that server is being used by nginx! U have to unistall it first

sudo apt-get remove nginx nginx-common # Removes all but config files.

sudo apt-get purge nginx nginx-common # Removes everything

sudo apt-get autoremove #After using any of the above commands, use this in order to remove dependencies used by nginx which are no longer required.