Calibre server wont start ...help please

[StefTeamEdward]

ok i have used calibre and upolaoded ebook to my itouch in stanza but i try to do that today and when i open calibre it says
ERROR: failed to start content server
Port 8080 not free on '0.0.0.0'

its the first time that happens so i went to tools and i try to click start sever and it gives me the same thing and also the option test server is not available like i cant click on it ...im getting very frustrated by it...

in my itouch stanza i have the right ip adress with the :8080\stanza and all that so iguess it doesnt show me the ebooks on stanza beucase calibres server wont start

any help pleasee!!!!
thanks

[kovidgoyal]

Try rebooting your computer, it looks like you have some other program running a server on the port 8080

[StefTeamEdward]

thanks but how do i do that???

[Forster]

Originally Posted by StefTeamEdward

thanks but how do i do that???

Turn the computer off and then turn it back on.

[StefTeamEdward]

yeah i did that but it didnt work i guess ill unistall calibre and install it again and hopefully it will work or ill stop usin calibre

[itimpi]

The most likely thing is that you have anti-virus/firewall type software blocking calibre. As you say you had it working at one point, has anything changed in that area?

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by StefTeamEdward

yeah i did that but it didnt work i guess ill unistall calibre and install it again and hopefully it will work or ill stop usin calibre

Oh no... the lost revenue will devastate the product.

But seriously... have you tried another port? Perhaps you have another service already running on 8080?

BOb

[StefTeamEdward]

oh yesss i installed a new anti virus maybe is that
ok let me try again
thanks

Originally Posted by itimpi

The most likely thing is that you have anti-virus/firewall type software blocking calibre. As you say you had it working at one point, has anything changed in that area?

[StefTeamEdward]

nope is not that i checked the firewalls and al that and calibre is allowed so i dont know im very frustrated... i dont get why it keeps telling me that por8080 not free.. and yeah i tried other ports but i always get the same message it wont connect

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by StefTeamEdward

nope is not that i checked the firewalls and al that and calibre is allowed so i dont know im very frustrated... i dont get why it keeps telling me that por8080 not free.. and yeah i tried other ports but i always get the same message it wont connect

Wait... "it won't connect"??? Is different than the server won't run. Which is it?

BOb

[StefTeamEdward]

the server... because if it worked ill be able to test the server but that button is not available.... i have the start server in start up checked so thats why when i open calibre it gives me that error of port 8080 not fre on 0000
but even if i click on start server it sil gives me the error

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Wait... "it won't connect"??? Is different than the server won't run. Which is it?

BOb

[bds4242]

Try port 8787 instead of 8080. Then what does it say?

[StefTeamEdward]

Originally Posted by bds4242

Try port 8787 instead of 8080. Then what does it say?

yeyyyyyyyyyyyy thanks so much it finally workeddddd
really thanks

[LaZerGaZer]

Originally Posted by bds4242

Try port 8787 instead of 8080. Then what does it say?

THANK YOU!!! This is the fix. My instance of this problem began with install AVG Pro 8. I tried every tweek, and gaming mode, alll that, nothing worked. switching to port 8787 works with AVG. thanks for a solved issue.

[SensualPoet]

Thanks for the 8787 tip. I've taken a few runs at that with Windows 7 Pro + AVG Free 9.0. This seems like such an easy fix; perhaps it can be added to the FAQ as an alternative?

Second point: I have added calibre.exe to have full private / public access through the Windows Firewall AND on my router, allowed HTTP incoming AND port forwarding 8787 to 80.

So far so good -- another computer BEHIND the firewall has access using the 192.168.x.x:8787 and correctly grabs the calibre index. But I still can't figure out how to make a computer on the OUTSIDE of the router see 99.230.x.x:8787 which is the address of the machine running Calibre (according to: http://www.whatismyip.com/).