How to fix Error: listen EADDRINUSE while using nodejs?

Question

If I run a server with the port 80, and I try to use xmlHTTPrequest i get this error: Error: listen EADDRINUSE

Why is it problem for nodejs, if I want t

Answer 1

You should try killing the process that is listening on port 80.

Killall will kill all the node apps running. You might not want to do that. With this command you can kill only the one app that is listening on a known port.

If using unix try this command:

sudo fuser -k 80/tcp