can't bind to port 80

[Lenin]

Binary package hint: lighttpd

i'm sure nothing is already bound, since netstat -plunt | grep 80 returns nothing. the version in karmic works, the one in lucid not: (1.4.22-1ubuntu4 and 1.4.26-1.1ubuntu1). I backported karmic version, that works again now. i'm on a powerpc g4 imac.

[Kenneth O'Brien (kobrien)]

Output from me. (clean install lucid beta 1)

* Starting web server lighttpd 2010-03-29 23:32:04: (network.c.345) can't bind to port: :: 80 Address already in use [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript lighttpd, action "start" failed. Setting up spawn-fcgi (1.6.3-1) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi.standalone to provide /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi (spawn-fcgi) in auto mode. update-alternatives: warning: not replacing /usr/share/man/man1/spawn-fcgi.1.gz with a link.

[Kenneth O'Brien (kobrien)]

I assume a missing a dependency?

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

No, that's not related to spawn-fcgi.
I can confirm that nothing is running on port 80 for me, too ("netstat -tulpen | grep 80").
Using port 81 in the lighttpd conf works however.

@Kenneth: does lighty start for you on port 80?

[Kenneth O'Brien (kobrien)]

Doesn't start, no.

[Kenneth O'Brien (kobrien)]

*patching this*

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

Hi all,

You might want to commend in lighttpd.conf the following:

include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl"

On the other hand, you might wan't to check [1]:

[1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560837

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

According to comment [1] from upstream, they will have a new logic to handle IPV6 for lighttpd 2.0.x. They recommend to drop the use of use-ipv6.pl script by default.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lighttpd - 1.4.26-1.1ubuntu2

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lighttpd (1.4.26-1.1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/lighttpd.conf: Comment 'use-ipv6.pl' by default, which causes
    failure to bind port in ipv4 (LP: #551211)
 -- Andres Rodriguez <email address hidden> Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:37:37 -0400

[Kenneth O'Brien (kobrien)]

This fixes the issue.

[RoyK (roysk)]

The proposed fix seems to break IPv6 after all, changing bind address to localhost instead of "any".

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

That's why the use-ipv6 script in lighttpd.conf is now disabled by default. As I previously said over a discussion on irc and as explained in the Debian bug, this will be addressed differently by upstream developers of lighttpd [1], for lighttpd sandbox/2.0.

[1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560837#38

[bodhi.zazen (bodhi.zazen)]

This bug is still a "problem" in lucid.

# service lighttpd start
Syntax OK
 * Starting web server lighttpd 2010-05-13 20:37:27: (network.c.345) can't bind to port: :: 80 Address already in use

# apt-cache show lighttpd
Package: lighttpd
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Installed-Size: 1012
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Debian lighttpd maintainers <pkg-lighttpd-maintainers@lists .alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.4.26-1.1ubuntu3
Provides: httpd, httpd-cgi
Depends: libattr1 (>= 2.4.41-1), libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.4), libgamin0 | libfam0 , libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libpcre3 (>= 7.7), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8k-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), lsb-base (>= 3.2-14), mime-support, libterm-readline-perl-perl
Recommends: spawn-fcgi
Suggests: openssl, rrdtool, apache2-utils, ufw
Conflicts: cherokee (<= 0.6.1-1)
Filename: pool/universe/l/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.26-1.1ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 297310
MD5sum: 0b4788bed2a0c0ed7d303c376a57b30f
SHA1: 039999c1e10cd4d7294bf8a54d56522fa49d8132
SHA256: 670764b138cc37b00574c636ac6c3d88bcb9bb146746a2a018cd3cfe56a8635c
Description: A fast webserver with minimal memory footprint
 lighttpd is a small webserver and fast webserver developed with
 security in mind and a lot of features.
 It has support for
   * CGI, FastCGI and SSI
   * virtual hosts
   * URL rewriting
   * authentication (plain files, htpasswd, ldap)
   * transparent content compression
   * conditional configuration
 and configuration is straight-forward and easy.
Homepage: http://www.lighttpd.net
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

# grep ipv6 /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
## Use ipv6 only if available.
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl"

I can start lighttpd by commenting out that line

#include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl"

[Durand D'souza (durand1)]

It's still a problem in maverick.

[Stefan Bühler (stbuehler)]

This has been fixed upstream in 1.4.27, for details see http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/IPv6-Config
The debian script can be used again.