Artisan Error: Failed to listen on localhost:8000

Question

I\'m having problem starting my laravel installation. Whenever I type in the terminal \'php artisan serve\' it responses me an error:

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Answer 1

Fixing Error: Failed to listen on localhost:8000 (reason: Address already in use)

List processes with php in it

ps -ef | grep php

Example output

501  **9347**     393    0  1:29PM ttys000    0:00.21 php artisan serve
501    9351    **9347**  0  1:29PM ttys000    0:02.01 /usr/local/php5-5.6.14-20151002-085853/bin/php -S localhost:8000 .../laravel/server.php
501    9781       393    0  1:56PM ttys000    0:00.00 grep php

Then kill the process

kill -9 9347