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From: dave@white.dogwood.com (Dave Cornejo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Compiling NCSA httpd v1.4
Date: 10 May 1995 06:46:48 -0700
Organization: Dogwood Media
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References: <3opp1m$cl@owl.und.ac.za>
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Keywords: httpd NCSA port

In article <3opp1m$cl@owl.und.ac.za>,
Ewan McPhail <chops@kestrel.ugrd.und.ac.za> wrote:
>I'm still having hassles getting the NCSA httpd v1.4 to run on my system
>(FreeBSD 2.0). After suggestions from several people, I compiled the binaries
>using the netbsd predefines (after changing paths, etc). This
>worked Ok.
>
>However, the httpd reports "httpd: could not bind to port 80
>			    bind: Address already in use"
>on stdout when executed. What's already using the port?

This means that httpd is trying to get open 80 which inetd had already
opened.  I seem to recall a bug in beta that was only fixed in the
released 1.4 version, so you might make sure that you are not using
one of the beta versions...


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Dave Cornejo                                There is nothing so subtle
Dogwood Media                                           as the obvious
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