Groovy-grails: grails run-war works, but grails run-app throws BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind<null>:80n

Question

When I run grails -Dserver.port=80 run-app, I get

LifecycleException:  Protocol handler initialization failed: java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind<n                                                          ull>:80
    at org.grails.tomcat.TomcatServer.start(TomcatServer.groovy:212)
    at grails.web.container.EmbeddableServer$start.call(Unknown Source)

When I run grails -Dserver.port=80 run-war, the web app runs perfectly.

I'm using Windows 7 and grails 1.3.7 with the built-in tomcat server. I'm new to this, so if you need more information, please ask.

How can I get run-app working on port 80?

Answer 1

The exception message states that the Address already in use. ie. another application is already taken and is listening on port 80. If the run-war command works successfully, it will have taken port 80. Are you sure that this process has stopped before running the run-app command?

Checkout this question/answer for how to investigate which process is listening on a certain port.