nginx - nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (9

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 [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] still could not bind()
   ...done.
   ...done.

If I run

lsof -i :80 or sudo fuser -k 80/tcp 

I get nothing. Nothing on port 80

Then I run the below:

sudo netstat -pan | grep ":80"
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8070          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      15056/uwsgi     
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39567      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39564      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39584      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39566      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39571      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39580      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39562      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39582      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39586      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39575      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39579      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39560      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39587      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39591      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   -               
tcp        0      0 10.170.35.97:39589      10.158.58.13:8080       TIME_WAIT   - 

I am stumped.

How to a debug?

I am using uwsgi with a

proxy pass on port 8070. uwsgi is running. Nginx is not. I am using ubuntu 12.4

Below are the relevant portions of my nginx conf file

upstream uwsgi_frontend {
          server 127.0.0.1:8070;
        }
server {
listen 80;
        server_name 127.0.0.1;
        location = /favicon.ico {
                  log_not_found off;
                }



                location / {
                       include uwsgi_params;
                       uwsgi_buffering off;

                       uwsgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8070;
                 }
        }

Here is how I install nginx on ubuntu 12.04

nginx=stable;add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/$nginx;
apt-get update
apt get install nginx-full

Answer 1

If problem persists after trying any of the above solutions, Restart your server once. It worked for me :)

Answer 2

My case is different, I had to kill running Nginx to restart it.

Instead of

sudo systemctl restart nginx

I had to use:

sudo pkill -f nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

I met similar problem. the log is like below

2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
2018/10/31 12:54:20 [emerg] 128005#128005: still could not bind()
2018/10/31 12:54:23 [alert] 127997#127997: unlink() "/run/nginx.pid" failed (2: No such file or directory)
2018/10/31 22:40:48 [info] 36948#36948: Using 32768KiB of shared memory for push module in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:68
2018/10/31 22:50:40 [emerg] 37638#37638: duplicate listen options for [::]:80 in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:18
2018/10/31 22:51:33 [info] 37787#37787: Using 32768KiB of shared memory for push module in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:68

The last [emerg] shows that duplicate listen options for [::]:80 which means that there are more than one nginx block file containing [::]:80.

My solution is to remove one of the [::]:80 setting

P.S. you probably have default block file. My advice is to keep this file as default server for port 80. and remove [::]:80 from other block files

Answer 5

I had several *.save files (emergency dumps from nano) from different NGINX config files in my sites-avilable dir. Once I deleted these .save files, NGINX restarted fine. I assumed these were harmless since there were no corresponding symlinks, but I guess I was wrong.

Answer 6

First change apache listen port 80 to 8080 apache in /etc/apache2/ports.conf include

Listen 1.2.3.4:80 to 1.2.3.4:8080
sudo service apache2 restart 

or

sudo service httpd restart    // in case of centos

then add nginx as reverse proxy server that will listen apache port

server {
 listen   1.2.3.4:80;
 server_name  some.com;

 access_log  /var/log/nginx/something-access.log;

 location / {
  proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
  proxy_redirect off;
  proxy_set_header Host $host;
  proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
 }


location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|js|jpeg|png)$ {
   root /usr/share/nginx/html/;
}

location /404.html {
  root /usr/share/nginx/html/40x.html;
}

error_page 404 /404.html;
    location = /40x.html {
}

error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
}

# put code for static content like js/css/images/fonts
}

After changes restart nginx server

sudo service nginx restart

Now all traffic will be handled by nginx server and send all dynamic request to apache and static conten is served by nginx server.

For advance configuration like cache :

https://www.linode.com/docs/web-servers/nginx/slightly-more-advanced-configurations-for-nginx/#basic-nginx-caching