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

While killing the NODE_PORT, it might kill your chrome process or anything that is listening to the same port, and that's annoying.

This shell script may be helpful - in my case the port is 1337 but you can change it anytime

# LOGIC

CHROME_PIDS=`pidof chrome`
PORT_PIDS=`lsof -t -i tcp:1337`

for pid in $PORT_PIDS
do

if [[ ${CHROME_PIDS} != *$pid* ]];then

    # NOT FOUND IN CHROME PIDS

    echo "Killing $pid..."
    ps -p "$pid"

    kill -kill "$pid"
    fi

done

sails lift
# OR 'node app' OR whatever that starts your node

exit