Several ports (8005, 8080, 8009) required by Tomcat 6 at localhost are already in use

November 28, 2011 by Sandeep Bhardwaj | Tags: Eclipse

Several ports (8005, 8080, 8009) required by Tomcat 6 at localhost are already in use.

Today ,I faced a problem while running the tomcat with in the eclipse a popup appears
and it says:-

"Several ports (8005, 8080, 8009) required by Server (Tomcat 6) at localhost are already in use. The server may already be running in another process, or a system process may be using the port. To start this server you will need to stop the other process or change the port number(s)."  

so it means we have kill that process which is running on that port says (8080).A pretty simple solution isrun the below commands on commands on command prompt.

Step 1

netstat -a -o -n and it will bring up a network list,search for the local address like 127.0.0.1:8080 and note the PID (eq 3624)

C:\>netstat -a -o -n

Step 2

taskkill /F /PID 3624 . Run this command to kill that process.

C:\>taskkill /F /PID 3624

Hurry now you are able to run your server.