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Docker Error bind: address already in use


In your case it was some other process that was using the port and as indicated in the comments, sudo netstat -pna | grep 3000 helped you in solving the problem.

While in other cases (I myself encountered it many times) it mostly is the same container running at some other instance. In that case docker ps was very helpful as often I left the same containers running in other directories and then tried running again at other places, where same container names were used.

How docker ps helped me: docker rm -f $(docker ps -aq) is a short command which I use to remove all containers.

Edit: Added how docker ps helped me.


This helped me:

docker-compose down  # Stop container on current dir if there is a docker-compose.ymldocker rm -fv $(docker ps -aq)  # Remove all containerssudo lsof -i -P -n | grep <port number>  # List who's using the port

and then:kill -9 <process id> (macOS) or sudo kill <process id> (Linux).

Source: comment by user Rub21.


I had the same problem. I fixed this by stopping the Apache2 service on my host.