macos - Starting Neo4j failed: Address localhost:7474 is already in use, cannot bind to it on Mac OSX

Question

I'm trying to install a neo4j server on my localhost (mac osx - El-capitan) and i'm getting this error -

Starting Neo4j failed: Address localhost:7474 is already in use, cannot bind to it.

I tried to stop the port from running and then install it throw the neo4j install app, but it still give this error

When i try to start the neo4j server it gives me this error :

./usr/local/bin/neo4j: line 229: [: too many arguments

Answer 1

Try to kill your java processes :

sudo killall -9 java

Then restart your neo4j server :

./bin/neo4j restart