Tomcat not starting (throwing java.net.BindException: )

Question

I have done the following settings to run a Java web project but somehow my Tomcat is not starting from Eclipse:

JAVA_HOME : C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.6.0_         


        

Answer 1

You should not have to change the server.port to fix this problem...

Mac/Unix/Linux Users: If after you restart Tomcat, and this problem still exists, it is probably because Tomcat was shutdown improperly and there are resources still associated with it that are now locked. You can see the PIDs of those resources by running this command:

lsof | grep tomcat

Terminate those processes using:

kill -15 

This should fix your problem.

Using the kill -15 command to TERM (-15) the process rather than SIGKILL (-9) is preferable. The -15 switch sends the process the signal to begin it's shutdown phases and clean up bounded resources.