Hi, you will have to also add the ‘Listen’ directive in your ‘httpd.conf’ file too. Default is port 80 but you can change this to either include or just 443.
> On 29 Aug 2018, at 05:02, Alex Nyamweya <animesoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes I do. > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:51 PM Rose, John B <jbr...@utk.edu > <mailto:jbr...@utk.edu>> wrote: > Do you have a /var/run/httpd directory? > > Sent from my iPad > > On Aug 28, 2018, at 9:48 PM, Alex Nyamweya <animesoni...@gmail.com > <mailto:animesoni...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am running an Apache server with CentOS 7 installed. I'm having issues >> starting apache using the command systemctl status httpd.service as I would >> get the following message: >> >> Job for httpd.service failed because the control process exited with error >> code. See "systemctl status httpd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. >> >> Here is the output of systemctl status httpd: >> >> httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server >> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled; vendor >> preset: disabled) >> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-08-29 02:46:48 CEST; >> 42s ago >> Docs: man:httpd(8) >> man:apachectl(8) >> Process: 9599 ExecStop=/bin/kill -WINCH ${MAINPID} (code=exited, >> status=1/FAILURE) >> Process: 9597 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -DFOREGROUND >> (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) >> Main PID: 9597 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) >> >> Aug 29 02:46:48 [server-name] systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server... >> Aug 29 02:46:48 [server-name] httpd[9597]: (98)Address already in use: >> AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [my-ip-address]:443 >> Aug 29 02:46:48 [server-name] httpd[9597]: no listening sockets available, >> shutting down >> Aug 29 02:46:48 [server-name] httpd[9597]: AH00015: Unable to open logs >> Aug 29 02:46:48 [server-name] systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process >> exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE >> Aug 29 02:46:48 [server-name] kill[9599]: kill: cannot find process "" >> Aug 29 02:46:48 [server-name] systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process >> exited, code=exited status=1 >> Aug 29 02:46:48 [server-name] systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP >> Server. >> Aug 29 02:46:48 [server-name] systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed >> state. >> Aug 29 02:46:48 [server-name] systemd[1]: httpd.service failed. >> >> Here is what I tried so far. I tried checking if any process is running on >> port 443 using the command netstat -an | grep 443, but it showed nothing. >> >> I tried checking the httpd.conf and ssl.conf files and see if there is a >> 'Listen 443' on both but there isn't. It is only in ssl.conf. >> >> That's all I've tried so far but I'm open to any suggestions you may have.