Just had this delightful problem tonight, fix: First make sure port 80/443 is not used by any other service or application with netstat command: # netstat -tulpn| grep :80 If port 80 is bind to httpd, kill all process: # killall -9 httpd Now start the httpd: # /etc/init.d/httpd start Make sure it’s a user capable of sudo Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit