httpd Server not started: (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:88
I happened to run into this problem because of missing SELinux permissions. By default, SELinux only allowed apache/httpd to bind to the following ports:
80, 81, 443, 488, 8008, 8009, 8443, 9000
So binding to my httpd.conf
-configured Listen 88
HTTP port and config.d/ssl.conf
-configured Listen 8445
TLS/SSL port would fail with that default SELinux configuration.
To fix my problem, I had to add ports 88 and 8445 to my system's SELinux configuration:
- Install
semanage
tools:sudo yum -y install policycoreutils-python
- Allow port 88 for httpd:
sudo semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 88
- Allow port 8445 for httpd:
sudo semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 8445
Seems like you are running it not as "root". Only root can bind to this port (80). Check your configuration in the conf/httpd.conf file, Listen line and change the port to higher one.
This is an addition to the answer by Abdull somewhere in this thread:
I had to modify instead of adding a port
semanage port -m -t http_port_t -p tcp 5000
because I get this error on adding the port
ValueError: Port tcp/5000 already defined