I am working on Mac OS 10.5.6 Leopard. Today I recognized, that every 10 seconds Apache forced the following error messages to appear in my console.log:

org.apache.httpd[10664] (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
org.apache.httpd[10664] (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
org.apache.httpd[10664] no listening sockets available, shutting down
org.apache.httpd[10664] Unable to open logs
com.apple.launchd[79] (org.apache.httpd[10664]) Exited with exit code: 1
com.apple.launchd[79] (org.apache.httpd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

After searching the web for this error(s), I got rid that somehow the httpd- service tries to listen on port :80, but which is already listened on by something else. The message “Unable to open logs” may refer to that Apache was not started with root-privileges, but which it needs to startup properly.

I was able to fix this error lines by doing the following steps:
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