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:

Fai

Answer 1

for me php -S localhost:8080 from the terminal in vs code will sometimes crash, but still be running in the background.

-9 to force kill did it for me thanks @hemss

I did

php -S localhost:8080

[Wed Dec 12 13:48:03 2018] Failed to listen on localhost:8080(reason: Address already in use)

then I..

sudo netstat -plnt

find the process running on port 8080

tcp        2      0 127.0.0.1:8080          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      10312/php

then force kill it..

kill -9 10312

I get

[1]  + 10312 killed     php -S localhost:8080

then restart...

php -S localhost:8080