[Tutor] help requested: port not free, under Windows XP

R. Alan Monroe amonroe at columbus.rr.com
Thu May 25 05:11:12 CEST 2006


> Someone on edu-sig tried to get it working on her computer running Windows
> XP home edition (just like mine, where it works fine!). However, she gets an
> error message about
> " port 8080 not free on local host."   This is after she made sure nothing
> else internet-related was working.  [This kind of message can happen if
> another instance of Crunchy Frog is already running, which she made sure
> wasn't.]

> I am stumped....

Try netstat -o (shows the owning pid for each network port)

Alan



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