Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use: bind

Question

I am trying to run a spring boot application by clicking on Run as -> Spring Boot App. I am getting the error as :

Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use: bind

When I use netstat command, I see the below without process Ids:

netstat -na | find "8080"

TCP    0.0.0.0:8080   0.0.0.0:0    LISTENING

TCP    [::]:8080      [::]:0       LISTENING

Notice - I am running my code on windows machine

How do I kill these processes?

Solution

You can change your application's port number by providing something like server.port=4567 in your application.properties.

OR

You can follow the steps as mentioned in http://www.codeman.in/blog/windows-kill-process-by-port-number-157 to kill process running on a port number:-

Comments

[user10411549]

Hello, I forgot to mention I am running this code on my Windows machine. So, I am unable to run the above command lsof -i