Moodle Installation - Novice at work!

[Íde ONeill]

Hello everyone and Happy Easter to one and all!

I'm sorry to bother you with this query and am appreciative of any response at any time.

I am trying, for the first time, to install Moodle 2.6 and am getting the following error message before the dialogue box closes:

'An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions: make_sock:could not bind to addresss
0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down. Unable to open logs.'

I have sought assistance on the Moodle forum and have found some mention of 'port 80' a possible source of the problem but I'm unsure.

Any help would be deeply appreciated.

Many thanks.

[Seaghan Moriarty]

Hi Íde,

Can't help much, as no experience installing Moodle on a Windows server/pc etc.
However, I remember seeing similar and it's got to do with (and it's a Windows / Apache problem rather than a Moodle problem) Port 80 not being available for Moodle when it needs it. Two possible lines of investigation:

1) Your firewall might be blocking Port80 (shut it down and test)
2) Another program might be hogging port80

HTH

Kindest Regards,
Seaghan Moriarty.

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[Eugene Eichelberger]

Chances are pretty good that another program is listening on Port 80. This port is the standard for web servers. You might be able to tell what program is running by using a web browser to see what is being presented by going to the web address http://127.0.0.1/ 

If a website comes up, then you have a web server already listening on that computer. That software will have to be shutdown before the Moodle server can start. You can also check if a program is listening on that port number by using the command line. The command netstat shows a list of programs listening for connections. More instructions on this are here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48198/how-can-you-find-out-which-process-is-listening-on-a-port-on-windows#48199

Alternatively, you can change the port number which Moodle is listening. This may be enough to get you started today and have somebody else help you out later. If you do change the port number than you reflect that change by going to a different URL when Moodle starts. If your on the server that is running Moodle the URL would be http://127.0.0.1:8765/   (The "8765" is the new port number you choose) Without knowing what webserver your using, I can't pass along exact instructions on how to change the port number Moodle is trying to listen. If you have IIS installed and running try turning that off before starting up Moodle.

-Eugene

[hetty c Murphy]

Hi Ide

Anything is this forum?

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=202968‎

Hetty

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