[ColinSharples]

This afternoon I tried restarting my WAS 7 server, but I got a message saying that the HTTP was already in use by another instance of WebSphere.

I do not have any other instances of WAS running, and the WAS had been working fine from MyEclipse up to this afternoon.

I can start and stop the WAS server from the command line, so why can’t MyEclipse start it?

This is extremely urgent, as I am testing a new release that is due to go out tonight, and I can’t do any testing if MyEclipse won’t let me run WebSphere.

[support-shalini]

ColinSharples,
Can you give some more information?
1. Can you check if any other instance is running when you get the message? You can type https://localhost:9043/ibm/console/logon.jsp to check if it opens the admin console.
2. Can you copy paste the entire console message that you get?
3. Are there any relevant errors logged in the log file located at workspace dir > .metadata > .log?

[ColinSharples]

As I said, I did confirm that there were no other instances running. There is no java process showing up in Task Manager, netstat does not show anything on the WAS http port (9080), and the admin console does not open.

It is not a console message – MyEclipse pops up a dialog when I click the server start button, which says “The WebSphere HTTP port is already in use. This is most likely caused by another instance of WebSphere running (possibly as a Windows Service)…”

But my WAS server is a standalone server, not a Windows Service, and I don’t have any other applications that use port 9080.

If I change the port number to 9081, the server starts, but in the Servers view it still shows up as “Starting…” even after WAS has said “Server open for e-business” – so the stop button is not enabled.

The workspace log doesn’t show any errors from the time that I clicked the button, but there are some errors from when MyEclipse started up – it mentions a conflict between key bindings for SHIFT+DEL and CTRL+F9.

[support-shalini]

ColinSharples,
Can you try out the following and let me know if they work for you
1. Try starting your IDE using -clean as given in the link below –
https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/troubleshoot-using-the-clean-command-line-argument/
2. Try stopping all the servers from other profiles. From the start menu go to IBM Websphere > Application Server V7.0 > Profiles > [select other profiles] and click “Stop the Server” from their context menu. I have attached some screen shots for your reference.
3. Can you look for any javaw.exe and kill them with their corresponding PID using taskkill /pid 4412 /F. Replace 4412 with your PID.

Can you send us a screen shot showing your connector details. Edit your server instance from Window > Preferences > MyEcilpse > Servers > Websphere 7.0. In the new wizard that opens, send us a screen shot showing your connector port details. Please make sure the HTTP port is set to 9080

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[ColinSharples]

1) I did try a -clean, and it didn’t make any difference
2) As I said before, I don’t have any other WAS profiles, so there can’t be any other WAS instances running. Just so we’re clear here – the profile I am using in MyEclipse is the only WAS profile on my machine.
3) As I said before, I confirmed that there were no other Java processes running.
4) As I said before, the port in the connector details is definitely 9080.

[support-shalini]

ColinSharples,
I shall escalate this issue to the dev team member.
They will get back to you on this.

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