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[Httpd Wiki] Update of "CouldNotBindToAddress" by EricCovener

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  $> sudo lsof -i:80
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- Once you see these results, you can choose to kill the program in question, or change the port that Apache uses.
+ Once you see these results, you can choose to kill the program in question, or change the port that Apache uses. 
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+ If Apache (httpd, apache2, etc) is the application listening on these ports, but you can't stop it using your normal procedure, someone may have deleted the servers PidFile. The PidFile records the process ID of the parent process and is how most scripts test to see if Apache is running.  You can manually stop the server by determining the PID of the parent process and sending it a SIGTERM.
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+ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/stopping.html
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