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(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80, Mac OS Lion

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Problem

I was trying to get passenger to work on my home computer and ran into this problem. I get this error when I try to start Apache. I get Syntax OK when I test Apache. this is where I set port 80 in my Apache config file. Not sure what I am doing wrong.

Error Output

(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80

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Fix for: (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80, Mac OS Lion

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The problem will be that you didn't start Apache as root - by default on any unix based operating system only root can bind a process to a port below 1024. Your choices are to either use a port higher than 1023 and remember to specify it when you co…

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