How to kill the process currently using a port on localhost in windows
We everyone worked on Tomcat server and sometimes we are facing one common issue
"java.net.BindException: Address already in use: bind"
How to resolve this
Steps to follow
Step 1
Run command-line as an Administrator. Then run the below mention command. type your port number in yourPortNumber
netstat -ano | findstr :yourPortNumber
Red colored circled area shows the PID (process identifier)
Step 2
Then you execute this command after identify the PID.
taskkill /PID typeyourPIDhere /F
Run the first command again to check if process is still available or not. You'll get empty line if process is successfully ended
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