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

You can use list open file command and then kill the process like below.

sudo lsof -t -i tcp:8181 | xargs kill -9

or

sudo lsof -i tcp:8181

kill -9 PID