Cannot start GlassFish 4.1 from within Netbeans 8.0.1 Service area

Question

On Windows 7 I downloaded the 'netbeans-8.0.1-javaee-windows.exe' installer from this site https://netbeans.org/downloads/. The installer installs GlassFish 4.1, Java 1.8.0_20 and NetBeans 8.01. After installation, whenever I try to start the GlassFish server from within the NetBeans Services area, I get this error:

Could not start GlassFish Server 4.1: HTTP or HTTPS listener port is occupied while server is not running

So I used

netstat -ano | find "1527"

to find out which process is holding this port and as it seems it is the Java Derby database itself that was just started by the GlassFish process. So the Glassfish startup is complaining about something it just caused itself. Strange. I don't know what to do. Anybody any idea?

Thanks already.

Answer 1

I also had this problem, it is because there is an application LISTENING to 8080 port. To solve this problem I followed the below steps:

1. Open cmd.exe then type

   netstat -aon | find ":8080" | find "LISTENING"

2. You will see like this result

   TCP 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 1464

3. Copy PID "1464".

4. Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+del), go to the details tag, then find the program or service via PID that is listening to the port 8080 then STOP it or End process.