Why cant i start my server ive dun it before

my cmd for minecraft says "starting minecraft server on *:25565 ****failed to bind to port! the exception was :java.net.BindException: Adress already in use: JVM_Bind perhaps a server is already running from that port" can someone plz help me

oh and when i try to log on to it it says my servers outdated when its not >< i downloaded everything before today and it worked before today

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Means that you already have an application running on that port so either change the port or make sure that port is not being used by another application.

 

how do i do that or check that?

 

You can do a netstat -a in command prompt to check your ports and I'm sure they are some programs on the web which can help you.

 

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i did that i saw the :25565 thing but it said foreign address (user)-pc:0 next to the ip hpw do i completely restart?

 

I'd look for a program on the internet that can help you identify which programs are connected to which ports. My guess is you have a program on your pc which accepts a foreign connection on port 25565 so you might want to use some utility to check what program is doing that and stop it.

 

i hate had the same issue for my test server..... i cant find anything that is running on port 25565 been over a week since my test server was last up

 

Change the port your server runs on in the server.properties file then.

 

ok, ill try all the ports possible ^_^ is their a range of ports that wont work for minecraft?

 

Any port, I wouldn't use 0-1024 because they're reserved. Choose a random one, say 34214

 

here goes portwarding hell

EDIT i did do it on that port 34242...... nothing

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You have to connect to yourserver with your port.

Code:

servername:portnumber

 

in my cmd it shows cant start on this port. again

 

Change the port then until you find a free one.

 

long tiem :/

 

Try 8080.

 

still wont even start up

 

Ok try 1337.

 

nope

 

Will assume your OS is windows.

CMD and type netstat. Paste here.

 

nothing with 25565 is open. i have vista

 

Make sure there isn't an old craftbukkit running already.

If on windows or mac restart your computer.

If on linux use (and know what you are doing): ps aux | grep java
And find the pid of the old craftbukkit process
Then use: sudo kill -9 pid
Replacing pid with the pid you found with the first line.

 

Did you set the IP= in server.properties? probably shouldnt do that.

 

Deleting the IP settings did it for me!

 

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