error: Couldn't start Appium REST http interface listener. Requested address is not available.

[Alex Arkanov]

I have a bit of an issue running appium on a grid.

Everything was working fine, however as of today I started getting the error: Couldn't start Appium REST http interface listener. Requested address is not available.

the way i'm starting appium is with -U mydevice -a mylocalipaddress(not the localhost) -p 4724 --selendroid-port 8080 --nodeconfig nodeconfig.json

in my node config i have the following configurations:

{

  "capabilities":

      [

        {

          "browserName": "nexus",

          "device": "selendroid",

          "version":"",

          "maxInstances": 1,

          "platform":"ANDROID"

        }

      ],

  "configuration":

  {

    "cleanUpCycle":2000,

    "timeout":10000,

    "proxy": "org.openqa.grid.selenium.proxy.DefaultRemoteProxy",    

    "url":"http://mylocalip:4724/wd/hub",

    "maxSession": 1,

    "port": 4724,

    "host": "mylocalip",

    "register": true,

    "registerCycle": 5000,

    "hubPort": 4444,

    "hubHost": "mygridip(different from the local ip)"

  }

}

any input would be really appreciated.

Thank you,

[Alex Arkanov]

its all working now,

had a few errors in my start up scripts and my code where the ip address was not defined properly.

Everything is working correctly now.

[Kevin McGaire]

I'm getting the same error too. When I run my commands in Terminal everything works fine, however when I try to run them all through a Bash script I'm getting this error.

Maybe I have the same errors in the startup script?