[Sussex] Unbinding Apache from an IP

[Jon Fautley]

Al Bennett wrote:

> I've got an unmanaged box somewhere in Texas that hosts a couple of 
> domains. It's got four usable IPs assigned to it, I'd like one of them 
> to not have Apache on port 80 so I can put something else there.  I've 
> modified the apache config (attached - names and IP changed to protect 
> the guilty and most of the virtual hosts trimmed out for legibility, 
> they're all the same) but for the life of me I can't get apache to let 
> go of this IP.  netstat -l still shows it bound to *:80

A quick skim through indicates that all is well. I'm not sure quite why 
it's binding to multiple addresses. You've very clearly told it not to.

Is there anything listed in /etc/httpd/conf.d? It's possible that cpanel 
has added an additional file with a different "Listen" directive.

> The box is CentOS with Cpanel (not what I really wanted but choice was 
> limited and time tight!)

*shudder* :P

How did you restart apache? Make sure you totally stop the service and 
restart it (service httpd stop; sleep 1; service httpd start) as a 
reload/graceful/etc won't close open filehandles, and as such the apache 
process will still cling onto the *:80 binding.

Hear you Sunday ;)

Jon
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