Problems starting Apache 2.0.54

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Hi,

I just installed Apache 2.0.54 and when I try and start httpd I get

mohit@mohit-desktop:/sw/pkg/apache/bin$ ./httpd -k start
httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
(13): make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

So I then went to httpd conf and set:

ServerName "my machine's IP address"

I then tried to restart httpd and got"

(13): make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

I checked my process list but I do not see anything taking port 80 but I am new to linux/unix.

Could someone tell me how I can go about troubleshooting this problem.....?

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You should start httpd as root if you want to bind to port 80. For Unix, if you would like to listen on port numbers < 1024, the process needs to be started by root.