[SOLVED] XAMPP fails to start. Another web server with SSL already running, can't stop it

Draper · 07-29-2013, 02:12 PM

Hi all,

I'm running XAMPP while playing with DVWA. It was working very well. Then, I decided to check out Nessus and had installed it and ran that, decided I didn't need/want it. I was told to stop it by doing this

Code:

# /etc/init.d/nessusd stop
$Shutting down Nessus : .

But then, when I try to start XAMPP,

Code:

$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
[sudo] password for admin: 
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.8.2-0...
XAMPP: Starting Apache...fail.
XAMPP:  Another web server with SSL is already running.
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok.
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...ok.

I tried again to stop nessus, as I thought it might restart when I boot, but got the same results. I also tried permanently stopping XAMPP from using SSL (something I found at http://askubuntu.com/questions/89156...n-ubuntu-11-10 ) which yielded the following

Code:

$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stopssl
Unknown command or add-on!

Is there an easy way to display currently running web servers?

Thanks

frankbell · 07-30-2013, 08:40 PM

This is shot in the dark, since I know nothing about nessus, but . . . .

Have you tried the ps command?

You can use something like

Code:

ps -A | grep [processname]

to identify a specific process's process number.

For example

Code:

ps -A | grep nessus

Draper · 07-31-2013, 07:17 PM

ps -A | grep nessus (or nessusd) yeilds nothing

Code:

# ps -A | grep nessusd
# ps -A | grep nessus

I ran ps -A and looked over all running processes, but nessus didn't show up there. So I tried starting nessus, then did ps -A again, and nessus showed up. Then I stopped nessus, and ran ps -A to confirm it wasn't running (which it wasn't). I then tried starting XAMPP again, which still gave me the same error about Apache being unable to start due to another web server with SSL running.

Not sure what to do from there. Could removing XAMPP then reinstalling it help?

frankbell · 07-31-2013, 08:21 PM

Try this with XAMMP running:

Code:

ps -A | grep httpd

(httpd is the webserver daemon for a several server programs.)

If you find server processes, you can then try something like pstree to start to track down what's spawning it.

bathory · 08-01-2013, 03:27 AM

Quote:

XAMPP: Another web server with SSL is already running.

You can run

Code:

netstat -tanpl|grep 443

to see what is listening on the SSL port

Draper · 08-01-2013, 12:09 PM

ps -A | grep httpd shows that httpd isn't running.

But..

Code:

:~# netstat -tanpl|grep 443
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:443             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3515/vmware-hostd
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:43484       74.125.239.113:443      ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:48163       23.54.241.224:443       ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:52182       74.125.239.32:443       ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:60668       74.125.239.130:443      ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp6       0      0 :::443                  :::*                    LISTEN      3515/vmware-hostd
:~# kill 3515
:~# netstat -tanpl|grep 443
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:35283       74.125.239.144:443      ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:56126       72.21.91.121:443        ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:56125       72.21.91.121:443        ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:42565       74.125.239.136:443      ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:56124       72.21.91.121:443        ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:52182       74.125.239.32:443       ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:56130       72.21.91.121:443        ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:50738       74.125.239.98:443       ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:56123       72.21.91.121:443        ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
tcp        0      0 10.x.1.130:56129       72.21.91.121:443        ESTABLISHED 3893/chrome     
:~# /opt/lampp/lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.8.2-0...
XAMPP: Starting Apache...ok.
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok.
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...ok.

Thank you all very much. I appreciate the help.