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

[Andre Roberge]

On 5/25/06, Richard Harding <rharding at mitechie.com> wrote:
>
> Andre Roberge wrote:
> > ===Now the question===
> > 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.]
> >
>
> > smart and friendly people here that I could find an answer ;-)
> Ideas:
>
> 1) Built in XP firewall, what SP is she at vs what you might have?
> 2) 8080 is a common port for proxy servers and alternate web configs so
> my first suggestion would be to change the app to not use a port that is
> so commonly used for something else.
> 3) In the end I would just try to port scan the machine and see if it is
> listening on port 8080 and then you're stuck trying to find out why.
> There are several ports scanners for windows you can download a trial
> of. I personally just use nmap.


Thank you Rick (and Alan) for your suggestions which I forwarded to
Catherine, would-be-user of Crunchy Frog.  Apparently Catherine was using
port 8080 as a proxy server; changing it made everything work.  This also
tells me that I should use a different number as a default.

I'll now go back to just being a reader of this list, with some rare
attempts at answering questions.

André


Rick
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