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Problem binding port 50500 with WCM Alfresco 2.9B

ghernando — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:38:24 GMT

Hello,When I try to start the virtual tomcat, I'm seeing some errors in the log.There seems to be a problem binding port 50500. It's a clean machine. I don't have anything using port 50500.But I do see 50500 referenced in the standard tomcat distributed with the alfresco/tomcat bundle.Do I need to

Re: Problem binding port 50500 with WCM Alfresco 2.9B

jottley — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:11:23 GMT

Make sure that the hosts file references your host name and the ip/ localhost ip

for example:

127.0.0.1 localhost heidegger

List both localhost and the actual host name of the machine.

Re: Problem binding port 50500 with WCM Alfresco 2.9B

torsten_e — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:10:36 GMT

I have the same problem

my hosts. file


127.0.0.1  localhost  server8
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Re: Problem binding port 50500 with WCM Alfresco 2.9B

erinn — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:11:54 GMT

I tried the /etc/hosts tricks and that did me no good, and after a long time digging around for this I found that NFS was bound to that particular port, so if you are running an NFS server on the same system that you are trying to setup Alfresco on beware. A 'netstat -an | grep 50500' will tell you whether the port is bound by something else. Interestingly lsof -i :50500 didn't come up with anything because there were no open files associated with that port.

I realize this post is from months ago, but just in case anyone else comes across this issue.

-Erinn

Re: Problem binding port 50500 with WCM Alfresco 2.9B

matthewboh — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:48:42 GMT

I've just spent the better part of two days trying to install Alfresco - I have the same problem. Is there a work around?

Thanks

Re: Problem binding port 50500 with WCM Alfresco 2.9B

jottley — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:54:11 GMT

If your local NFS server is always using that port (50500) you can modify alfresco-shared.properties.

Re: Problem binding port 50500 with WCM Alfresco 2.9B

matthewboh — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:08:22 GMT

It turns out that this error was caused by alfresco having some troubles finding the shared libraries. I found the solution here

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_Tomcat6