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 had this error on AWS Lightsail, used the top answer above

from

listen [::]:80;

to

listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on default_server;

and then click on "reboot" button inside my AWS account, I have main server Apache and Nginx as proxy.