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

Answer 2

You don’t need to install anything. Just download the linux tar.gz package, uncompress it and use the terminal to run the command ‘./bin/neo4j console’ to run it in console mode. You can start it in background too but based on your question, it sounds like this is just a dev machine.

Answer 3

Same problem using Win 10, I had to turn off https-support in neo4j-server.properties, i.e.

\# Turn https-support on/off
org.neo4j.server.webserver.https.enabled=false