I'm trying to start an instance of Apache 2.2 server with a fairly-close-to-standard configuration file. I made one small change because I want Apache to serve a single XML file separately from everything else it does, purely for testing on my local machine. The change is that I inserted this into httpd.conf:
# Based on http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/examples.html
Listen 10.11.12.13:85
NameVirtualHost 10.11.12.13:85
<VirtualHost 10.11.12.13:85>
DocumentRoot "C:\foo\bar"
ServerName www.MyCompanyMyProjectFooBarTestURL.com
</VirtualHost>
Attempting to start Apache resulted in this:
(OS 10049)The requested address is not valid in its context. : make_sock: could not bind to address 10.11.12.13:85
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
No instances of Apache are running. Nothing is using port 85 (or 80 or 8080). There's nothing special about 10.11.12.13:85; I just figured that was an IP that wouldn't interfere with anything.
What does this error mean, and how can I resolve it?
Best Answer
There could be reason the IP address you are pointing is generic one. For example:-10.1.1.233:443 And you get error >>> (OS 10049)The requested address is not valid in its context. : make_sock: could not bind to address 10.1.1.233:443
comment the line in httpd-ssl.conf and start the Apache