local host wont connect

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Anna's Hummingbird posted this in #help-forum

Anna's HummingbirdOP

2023-08-02T22:47:04.000Z

Hello, so I am in the process of making my own blog as a project and I did it with javascript, html, and css. I basically made a good starting point with it, like a basic outline and being able to turn it from light mode to dark mode. This went, however, I wanted to start using next.js to make the blog. The setting up took a whole day but I finally set up the folder in the folder that the code for my blog was in. It was working fine yesterday, but suddenly, I can't host either pages on chrome anymore, it stopped working. When I would run it, it would say Launch Chrome against localhost, which is unusual as it usually just says run and debug. And when I would run it either way I would get url": "http://localhost:8080", which is not the usual host. Not only that, but it would say localhost refused to connect. Please let me know what I can do!

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@Anna's Hummingbird Hello, so I am in the process of making my own blog as a project and I did it with javascript, html, and css. I basically made a good starting point with it, like a basic outline and being able to turn it from light mode to dark mode. This went, however, I wanted to start using next.js to make the blog. The setting up took a whole day but I finally set up the folder in the folder that the code for my blog was in. It was working fine yesterday, but suddenly, I can't host either pages on chrome anymore, it stopped working. When I would run it, it would say Launch Chrome against localhost, which is unusual as it usually just says run and debug. And when I would run it either way I would get url": "http://localhost:8080", which is not the usual host. Not only that, but it would say localhost refused to connect. Please let me know what I can do!

Dayo

2023-08-02T22:55:52.000Z

how are you running the server?

@Dayo how are you running the server?

Anna's HummingbirdOP

2023-08-02T23:01:48.000Z

honestly, I'm unsure, this is the first time I've done a project, but as far as I am aware it is a local host that uses launches http://localhost:3000/, which is also what the launch.json file usually says when I run it.

This may be totally unhelpful. so sorry for that

i'm fairly new to all of this

Dayo

2023-08-02T23:03:08.000Z

try opening a new terminal in your project and run npm run dev
if you're using VS code, you should see the terminal option at the top

Anna's HummingbirdOP

2023-08-02T23:06:46.000Z

- error Failed to start server
Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use :::3001
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (node:net:1872:16)
at listenInCluster (node:net:1920:12)
at Server.listen (node:net:2008:7)
at C:\Users\pamul.vscode\myblog\nextjs-blog\node_modules\next\dist\server\lib\start-server.js:153:16
at new Promise (<anonymous>)
at startServer (C:\Users\pamul.vscode\myblog\nextjs-blog\node_modules\next\dist\server\lib\start-server.js:134:11)
at setupFork (C:\Users\pamul.vscode\myblog\nextjs-blog\node_modules\next\dist\cli\next-dev.js:448:75)
at runDevServer (C:\Users\pamul.vscode\myblog\nextjs-blog\node_modules\next\dist\cli\next-dev.js:457:23)
at async nextDev (C:\Users\pamul.vscode\myblog\nextjs-blog\node_modules\next\dist\cli\next-dev.js:566:9) {
code: 'EADDRINUSE',
errno: -4091,
syscall: 'listen',
address: '::',
port: 3001
}

this is the error i got

after doing so

Dayo

2023-08-02T23:10:29.000Z

run npx kill-port 3000

and then run npm run dev again

also, send a screenshot of your package.json file

Anna's HummingbirdOP

2023-08-02T23:18:46.000Z

here is the package and here is what happens when i run npm run dev

wait it works except now the first html file i created runs as the new next.js file i created

Dayo

2023-08-03T08:15:07.000Z