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Hello, I just started using SABnzbd but I cannot get it to work on my home pc computer. I installed the windows version from the website and then when I opened it, this message came up:


SABnzbd.exe 0.6.0




SABnzbd needs a free tcp/ip port for its internal web server.
Port 8085 on localhost was tried , but it is not available.
Some other software uses the port or SABnzbd is already running.

Please restart SABnzbd with a different port number.

Press Startkey+R and type the line (example):
    "C:\Program Files\SABnzbd\SABnzbd.exe" --server localhost:8081

If you get this error message again, please try a different number.

Program did not start!


I tried doing what it said with different ports, but the same error comes up. Then it says "see the logfile 'C:\Program Files\SABnzbd\SABnzbd.exe' for details"
This is what the log file said:


Exception in thread HTTPServer Thread-10:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "threading.pyo", line 488, in __bootstrap_inner
  File "threading.pyo", line 448, in run
  File "cherrypy\process\servers.pyo", line 75, in _start_http_thread
  File "cherrypy\wsgiserver\__init__.pyo", line 1629, in start
error: (10049, "Can't assign requested address")

Exception in thread Thread-8 (most likely raised during interpreter shutdown):Exception in thread HTTPServer Thread-10:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "threading.pyo", line 488, in __bootstrap_inner
  File "threading.pyo", line 448, in run
  File "cherrypy\process\servers.pyo", line 75, in _start_http_thread
  File "cherrypy\wsgiserver\__init__.pyo", line 1629, in start
error: (10049, "Can't assign requested address")


I don't much about this stuff but I have this working on my macbook on port 8080 localhost. But I can't get this to work on my home pc.
I also checked the firewall and gave full access to C:\Program Files\SABnzbd\SABnzbd.exe

Help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

There's something odd with the way DNS is set up on your system.
SABnzbd gets an error from Windows when it asks for the value of "localhost".
Try to start it like this:

Press Startkey+R and type the line:
    "C:\Program Files\SABnzbd\SABnzbd.exe" --server 127.0.0.1:8080
Enter-key

Yes, that worked. Thank you so much!
I have no idea why it wasn't working before, but thanks!