Failed to listen on localhost:8000 (reason: Cannot assign requested address)

Question

When I run php artisan serve on Ubuntu, the Laravel development server tries to start on http://localhost:8000/ but fails with this error:

[Mon Apr 25 10:28:08 2016] Failed to listen on localhost:8000 (reason: Cannot assign requested address)

My hosts file (/etc/hosts/):

1 27.0.0.1   localhost

How can this be fixed?

Is there actually a space between the "1" and "2" in your hosts file? — hobbs, Apr 25 '16 at 04:22
The best answers are here https://stackoverflow.com/a/33560446/3041435 — Gufran Hasan, Oct 22 '20 at 08:22

ganesh kalje · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-06T16:24:21.927

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That's usually because the port is in already in use, or not available on the current host.

You can use this command to run php artisan serve --port=8080

edited Apr 06 '18 at 16:24

answered Apr 27 '16 at 11:16

ganesh kalje

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