AWS Lightsail allows you to quickly make snapshots from your LAMP stack and deploy them later. If you one day decide to create a new instance of your snapshot and you happen to have an SSL certificate within your Apache config, you may see this error.

(98) Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80

This error means that Apache cannot start because your SSL certificate needs a password. Here's how to fix it:

Step 1 - Find the process that's hanging

There are a lot of different ways to do this. Here are a few:

Method 1: Use grep.

grep -ri listen /etc/apache2

Method 2: Use process then filter it with grep.

ps -ef | grep apache

If you see something like this, proceed to step 2.
ps-ef-grep-apache

Method 3: Use netstat and filter with grep.

sudo netstat -ntlp | grep 80

If you see something like this, you've found it! In the screen show below, the culprit is a process with an id (pid) of 1666.

netstat-ntlp-grep-80

Method 4: Show processes hung

ps wax | grep httpd

ps-wax-grep-httpd

Step 2 - Kill those processes

sudo kill -9 process_id

Step 3 - Double Check Your Work

ps -ef | grep apache

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