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

When php artisan serve command given, below mentioned problem occured.

macridmi1109@Ridmis-MacBook-Pro kcnk % php artisan serve

Laravel development server started on http://localhost:8000/

[Thu Aug 6 11:31:10 2020] Failed to listen on localhost:8000 (reason: Address already in use)

Then try this line of code,

macridmi1109@Ridmis-MacBook-Pro project_laravel % ps -ef | grep php

Result will be,

501 66167 1 0 11:24am ttys002 0:00.77 /usr/bin/php -S localhost:8000 /Users/macridmi1109/Documents/Laravel/project_laravel/server.php

501 66268 64261 0 11:31am ttys002 0:00.00 grep php

Finally run the below code and, then again php artisan serve

macridmi1109@Ridmis-MacBook-Pro project_laravel % kill 66167

SOLUTION EXPLAINED BELOW

I use the command, ps -ef | grep php. After that, you will be able to find Process ID. After recognising the correct Process ID, use this command kill 66167 (kill "Process ID"). Then try php artisan serve. This worked for me.

Happy Coding