By jareddsmith
Per this issue we had setting up discourse and running into an error again and again, we fixed it by using port 8081, but then were unable to get our site working unless the port was at the end of the url…
Original Thread and Question https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/discourse-setup-error-easy-setup-is-not-so-easy
The new question stems from fixing the fatal error we got during setup by using port 8081…
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I’m just going to answer your original question instead, what do you think the error means?
error starting userland proxy: listen tcp 0.0.0.0:80: bind: address already in use
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