Starting Neo4j failed: Address localhost:7474 is already in use, cannot bind to it on Mac OSX

Question

I\'m trying to install a neo4j server on my localhost (mac osx - El-capitan) and i\'m getting this error -

Starting Neo4j failed: Address localhost:

Answer 1

Try to kill your java processes :

sudo killall -9 java

Then restart your neo4j server :

./bin/neo4j restart