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

In my case, one of the services either Apache, Apache2 or Nginx was already running and due to that I was not able to start the other service.