8080 port already taken issue when trying to redeploy project from Spring Tool Suite IDE

Question

I have strange thing when I try to modify Spring project inside my Spring Tool Suite. On the first load (deploy) everything is fine, application compiles and runs on localho

Answer 1

On Linux Machine, save the bash script and execute it. If you want to free port 8080, Input 8080 when prompted

echo "Enter port number to be closed :: "
read port
sudo kill $(sudo lsof -t -i:$port)