Apache Requested Operation Has Failed After IP Change

I have setup a pretty basic Apache web server and it is only supposed to be serving my music directory upon requests. Yesterday, I unplugged my modem (which gives me a new IP) to fix an internet connection issue. That is the only change I can think of that has happened, because today when I try to start Apache I receive "The requested operation has failed!"

There are no error logs being created in the /logs/error.log file.

I've tried adding Listen newip:sameport to the config file and that did not help.

Does anyone know why I am receiving this error message when trying to boot up my web server or if there are some error logs I can view for this?

m4gik

Posted 2014-03-02T03:14:03.323

Reputation: 11

When you tried to start Apache were you root ? It sounds like you might not have had the privs required to start it ? – davidgo – 2014-03-02T04:00:57.747

Yes, my account is an administrator and that has remained a constant factor. : / – m4gik – 2014-03-02T04:30:58.180

Answers

The external IP address change does not seem to be the cause of this error.

After looking at the Event Viewer in Windows 7 I was able to see an error: >>> (OS 10013)An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 .

Then I ran netstat -aon | findstr :80 and saw that a couple processes were listening on port 80 of my local machine, which may have been causing the issue. After removing the few that I could like the antivirus and another vpn client I was still running into the issue due to ProcessID 4 (SYSTEM).

Finally, I just switched the internal port that Apache was listening on from 80 to something else so that there would be no conflict.

m4gik

Posted 2014-03-02T03:14:03.323

Reputation: 11