Port is taken by another application

[e-no91]

Hi!

I'm using Windows 8, 64 bit.

Currently, I have Pentaho installed in my system. Pentaho also uses Postgres as default database and 8080 port.

So now when I want to install Alfresco Community 5, I get the error that port database 5432 'is already taken by another application.'

Been searching the solution for a whole day. How do I resolve this?

Thanks in advance!

[lutz_horn]

You can change the Alfresco configuration in the file

./tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties‍

.

<blockcode>
alfresco.context=alfresco
alfresco.host=localhost
alfresco.port=8080
alfresco.protocol=http

share.context=share
share.host=localhost
share.port=8080
share.protocol=http
</blockcode>

Chaange the ports to a value of your choice.

[e-no91]

Actually I couldn't change it like that because I couldn't install Alfresco.
I'm stuck at the server port during installation process.. How do I know what value I could use to replace port 5432?

[romschn]

While installing Alfresco, if you are facing the port already used error, you can try giving some other port such as 5433/5434 instead of 5432 until it does not give any error. This should let you proceed with completing the installation.

Hope this helps

[e-no91]

It works! I'm just worried that something will happen if I randomly change the port..

Thank you so much!