(98)Address already in use when switching PHP from CGI to DSO.

[afdg]

I'm currently running PHP5 as CGI and PHP4 as DSO. I would like to switch that and use PHP5 as DSO and PHP4 as CGI.

If I go to "Configure Suexec and PHP" and change things around to what I want it to be, all of a sudden, Apache cannot start and won't bind to port 80.

If I try to restart it, I get the following in SSH: "httpd not running, trying to start
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs"

If I go back to "Configure Suexec and PHP" and switch back to PHP5 as CGI and PHP4 as DSO, everything goes back to normal.

Any idea what I should do?

[vishwas]

If your trying to restart the apache service then try to stop and then Start it

It works many time for me

[afdg]

Thanks for the reply. I've tried that actually, but it didn't work either.

[chirpy]

You'll need to login to the root shell and stop apache and then check whether anything has bound to port 80 and stop that too:

/etc/init.d/httpd stop
netstat -lpn | grep 80

Once checked:

/scripts/restartsrv_httpd

(beware of chkservd restarting httpd in the meantime. It might be prudent to stop chkservd beforehand and then restart it afterwards)