nginx - nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)

Question

All of a sudden I am getting the below nginx error

 * Restarting nginx
 * Stopping nginx nginx
   ...done.
 * Starting nginx nginx
nginx: [emerg] bind() to [         


        

Answer 1

i fixed this by running sudo apachectl stop - turns out apache was running in the background and prevented nginx from starting on the desired port.

On ubuntu run sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop