Solved - An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden

Date Published: 14 October 2020 I'm assuming you're here because you are seeing this error and are wondering why: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel[0] Unable to start Kestrel. System.IO.IOException: Failed to bind to address http:/ /localhost:51816. -- -> System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. (An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.