Apache – The Apache service named reported the following error: Unable to open logs

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SAS Foundation runs on Tomcat servers. When I try to restart the Tomcat Apache service on the machine I get the following message

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I opened Windows Event Viewer to see the log. It relates to Apache with the error message:

The Apache service named reported the following error: Unable to
open logs .

I get no other information here. I assume Tomcat is running on Port 80.
When I do a netstat on my cmd, I see 0.0.0.0:80 taken by TCP. Could this be the conflict?

Would appreciate any help!

Update:
I realized actually get 4 logs with every restart attempt. Here are the other three:

The Apache service named reported the following 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 [::]:80 .

The Apache service named reported the following 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 .

The Apache service named reported the following error: no listening
sockets available, shutting down .

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I had the same problem with completely different software, web interface for Marvell RAID controller. I tried several recipes including modifications to httpd.conf to no avail. Next, I discovered nearby messages in windows log like follows:

The Apache service named reported the following error:

(OS 10048)Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:8845

Thus, logs were not available not because of any errors in httpd.conf but simply because Apache was already running but not responding to windows service manager.

I went to task manager and found there relevant httpd process running. I killed this process. Then service started normally from service manager without any errors.

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The following error usually means that some other program is listening on the HTTP port (80).

(OS 10048)Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 .

In my experience, IM (chat) clients like to connect to port 80.

From a command prompt, (cmd.exe) run the command:

netstat -an

See if there is a listener on port 80 (Look for a line that says:

   TCP    0.0.0.0:80           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
   ===           ====

the important thing being TCP and 80. If you find something, you'll need to track it down using something like TcpView

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After searching for a solution online, I saw people blaming MS SQL reporting services, all MS SQL services, Windows Remote Management service etc. But one post had a helpful diagnostic command that allowed to to track the listening service to w3svc.

TMG is Unable to Listen on Port 80 (no IIS was not installed) by Ori Yosefi, MSFT, October 15, 2010

    e:\DIR>netsh http show servicestate

    Snapshot of HTTP service state (Server Session View):
    -----------------------------------------------------

    Server session ID: FF00000320000001
        [..]
        URL group ID: FE00000340000001
                [..]
                Registered URLs:
                    HTTP://*:80/

    Request queues:
        Request queue name: DefaultAppPool
            [..]
            Controller process ID: 2724
            Process IDs:
                5412

I could see the services running under the detected PID using the tasklist command.

    e:\DIR>tasklist /svc
    [..]
    svchost.exe                   2724 W3SVC, WAS
    [..]

I could inquire configuration details of these services.

    e:\DIR>sc qc w3svc
    [SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS

    SERVICE_NAME: w3svc
            TYPE               : 20  WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
            START_TYPE         : 2   AUTO_START
            ERROR_CONTROL      : 1   NORMAL
            BINARY_PATH_NAME   : C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k iissvcs
            LOAD_ORDER_GROUP   :
            TAG                : 0
            DISPLAY_NAME       : World Wide Web Publishing Service
            DEPENDENCIES       : WAS
                               : HTTP
            SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem


    e:\DIR>sc qc was
    [SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS

    SERVICE_NAME: was
            TYPE               : 20  WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
            START_TYPE         : 3   DEMAND_START
            ERROR_CONTROL      : 1   NORMAL
            BINARY_PATH_NAME   : C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k iissvcs
            LOAD_ORDER_GROUP   :
            TAG                : 0
            DISPLAY_NAME       : Windows Process Activation Service
            DEPENDENCIES       : RPCSS
            SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem

I could not stop them from command line running as a regular user.

    e:\DIR>net stop w3svc
    System error 5 has occurred.

    Access is denied.


    e:\DIR>net stop was
    The following services are dependent on the Windows Process Activation Service service.
    Stopping the Windows Process Activation Service service will also stop these services.

       World Wide Web Publishing Service
       Net.Tcp Listener Adapter
       Net.Pipe Listener Adapter

    Do you want to continue this operation? (Y/N) [N]: y
    System error 5 has occurred.

    Access is denied.

Then I stopped World Wide Web Publishing Service through the Services GUI, services.msc. I also changed the startup type for this service to Manual. No service listened to TCP port 80 after that.

    e:\DIR>netstat -ano
    [..no process listening on TCP port 80..]

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