I m a trainee in a windows dominated environment .. in fact mine is the opnly linux machine .. i m trying to do a project in which i m trying to explore advantages of linux over windows ... and i was trying to set up apache sever so that i can test it for access of interner through it ... i myself get interenet from a windows proxy server .... and for testing i wanna make this system as server for access of internet for its users ..... taking resopurces n connection from main windows server .... i m getting following error .. while executing
service httpd start

[root@linux ~]# service httpd start
Starting httpd: [Fri Jun 10 15:10:51 2005] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf at line 500 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier AliasMatch.
(99)Cannot assign requested address: make_sock: could not bind to address 10.31.0.7:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

kindly help

looks like u have not set Apache to listen to ur ip address but other IP address

why don't u refer to a simple tutorial

google for them or search this LQ site

regards