Help Please (server hosting issue)

[ThatOnePipit]

i have an issue with my server i have port forward 25565 and 25560 was able to join my server via the browser with a friend we played for a good 4-6 hours and got off shut server and game down when tried to rehost today and im getting errors from the server.exe failed to bind port and then crashes 2 seconds later please help

[David Cernat]

Did you keep 0.0.0.0 as your localAddress in tes3mp-server-default.cfg or did you change it?

[testman]

Originally posted by ThatOnePipit:

failed to bind port

whole text for this error is

Failed to bind port. Make sure a server isn't already running on that port."

So, can you check that you are not running any other game server on the port 25565. Not necessarily just TES3MP. Minecraft uses 25565 by default as well, so if you had a Minecraft server running at default settings, then TES3MP server would fail to bind port.

Also you do not need to forward 25560, you should remove that rule from port forwarding settings.

[ThatOnePipit]

Originally posted by David C.:

Did you keep 0.0.0.0 as your localAddress in tes3mp-server-default.cfg or did you change it?

i kept 0.0.0.0 when i first ran the server worked then had to change it to my local ip directly for it to appear in the browser with a ping to reach is i kept it on 0.0.0.0 it would crash the server.exe or when it appeared on the server browser itd be unreachable i just got back from a work trip so ill start over and see what happens

Originally posted by testman:

Originally posted by ThatOnePipit:

failed to bind port

whole text for this error is

Failed to bind port. Make sure a server isn't already running on that port."

So, can you check that you are not running any other game server on the port 25565. Not necessarily just TES3MP. Minecraft uses 25565 by default as well, so if you had a Minecraft server running at default settings, then TES3MP server would fail to bind port.

Also you do not need to forward 25560, you should remove that rule from port forwarding settings.

i dont have any other port forward for another server i will try to redo the port forward so it just 25565 see if that helps