Apache 2.4 updated, now throws: Cannot define multiple Listeners on the same IP:port

I've just updated Apache to 2.4.3 on my AWS instance (running Linux AMI). After the update finished, Apache crashed with the following:

Starting httpd: AH00526: Syntax error on line 5 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:
Cannot define multiple Listeners on the same IP:port

I went into the above file and commented out line 5: #Listen 443, because the new httpd.conf contains a line where the above listener is already set:

httpd.conf:

 40 ...
 41 #Listen 12.34.56.78:80
 42 Listen 80
 43 Listen 443
 44 
 45 ...

My question is, if I configure SSL certificates individually in my VirtualHost's config files, could I just comment out every line in the httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf? I mean is it still important to have it included? And why Apache 2.4.3 sets Listen 443 twice?

Thanks!


I have got the same error on different file

AH00526: Syntax error on line 18 of /private/etc/apache2/other/httpd_xcs.conf:
Cannot define multiple Listeners on the same IP:port

I just comment #Listen 443 and it worked fine.


I had this problem under Windows 10 Server with Apache 2.4 installation. Problem ist that there's only one port-binding allowed.

The default httpd.conf has at the end the following section:

<IfModule ssl_module>
Listen 443
Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf
Include conf/extra/httpd-ahssl.conf
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
</IfModule>
<IfModule http2_module>
    ProtocolsHonorOrder On
    Protocols h2 h2c http/1.1
</IfModule>

As you can see there's one port-binding at the second line and two other Listen 443 in the conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf and conf/extra/httpd-ahssl.conf.

You can either comment out the corresponding port-binding in the httpd.conf or inside the included config files.