Stop apache on port 8080

Question

I am on a Mac running OSX 10.9.4

I am trying to run a Nesta app, it uses localhost:8080. I know that the app is not using the port since mr-sparkle has not yet installed.

But I entered the address and see that i left something is running. How can i find what that is and kill it, in plain English with minimal jargon. All i need is the command for the terminal.

I have tried

Kill what ever is running on port 8080

And various others but I cannot see the PID running on 8080.

This is what is showing at that localhost.

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I ran netstat -l -p | grep 8080 per a suggestion but got this

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Since you've provided no details whatsoever about the OS you're running this on, we cannot help you. — Marc B, Feb 23 '15 at 21:14
@MarcB, how about just asking for clarification instead of downvoting? — JGallardo, Feb 23 '15 at 21:18
This worked form me kill -9 <PId> http://stackoverflow.com/a/11583564/4751667 — Milinda Wickramasinghe, Mar 27 '17 at 12:00

Jean-François Savard · Answer 1 · 2015-02-23T22:34:45.040

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Supposing you are on unix, use the netstat command with -p to retrieve the pid, pipe it in a grep of port 8080.

 netstat -l -p | grep 8080

Now that you have the process id,

pkill -9 id

Edit : Since you commented and specify you are on OSX, try with

lsof -nP -i | grep 8080

then kill the process using pkill

edited Feb 23 '15 at 22:34

answered Feb 23 '15 at 21:18

Jean-François Savard

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On OSX. I got this `netstat: option requires an argument -- p` – JGallardo Feb 23 '15 at 21:23
Seems like netstat on OSX does not display port.. try `lsof -nP -iTCP:$PORT -sTCP:LISTEN` – Jean-François Savard Feb 23 '15 at 21:24
I got this `lsof: unacceptable port specification in: -i TCP:` – JGallardo Feb 23 '15 at 21:49
@JGallardo See my new edit. Sorry about the last one, could not test. Just tested this one on Yosemite and it works. – Jean-François Savard Feb 23 '15 at 22:35
Still getting the same result. I think it is because of PostgreSQL. So I am looking at solutions to kill that from running. – JGallardo Feb 24 '15 at 05:23
ps -ef | grep PostgreSQL then kill the process. – Jean-François Savard Feb 24 '15 at 12:01
On Mac OSX, `pkill` did not kill the process. But using `kill` did. – Austin Wolff Jan 11 '23 at 01:52

Stop apache on port 8080

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