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

Answer 2

Use killall -9 php and if you want to close other services use killall -9 node or killall -9 mysql

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

8000 is the default port. Use instead of :

php artisan serve --port=8005

Answer 5

If you have all your configurations ok in the .env file then you should:

Use the answer from mayorsanmayor in this post to kill all php processes. Then php artisan config:clear

Finally, php artisan serve

Good luck!