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user2685314
user2685314

Reputation: 1069

Debian GCE VM can't start a server on port 8080

I can't seem to bind a webserver to port 8080 on a Debian GCE VM instance, I always get :

error is[SocketException: Failed to create server socket (OS Error: Cannot assign requested address.

I've added a firewall entry for 0.0.0.0/0 tcp:8080, not that it seems to make a difference to the fault. I have a CouchDb database running on the same box on port 5984 with no problems.

The same code runs fine on an Ubuntu box I have.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 512

Answers (1)

Yuri Ginsburg
Yuri Ginsburg

Reputation: 2601

Looks like there is another server on this host listening to port 8080. It is not related to configuration of your firewall Can you run a command netstat -na and check if contains a line like TCP 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

Upvotes: 1

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