@Marvin Getting the following error when hosting prefect locally "an attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions"

The error message "an attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions" indicates that there is likely an issue with the network permissions or firewall settings on your machine. Here are a few steps you can take to troubleshoot and resolve this issue: 1. Run Prefect with Administrative Privileges: Ensure that you are running the Prefect server with administrative or elevated privileges. Depending on your operating system, you may need to run the command prompt or terminal as an administrator. 2. Check Firewall and Antivirus Settings: Make sure that your firewall or antivirus is not blocking the necessary ports or applications. Prefect may require certain ports to be open, and your security settings might be preventing access. 3. Change the Port Configuration: Try running Prefect on a different port that you know is open and not being used by another application. You can specify the port in the Prefect configuration. 4. Review Prefect Documentation: The following links from the Prefect documentation can be helpful: - Prefect Troubleshooting Guide - Hosting a Prefect Server 5. Restart Network Services: Sometimes, simply restarting your network services or your machine can resolve transient network issues. If these general steps don’t resolve the issue, you may need to look deeper into your specific environment and configurations. Remember, it's often not the tool's fault; just some mundane, pointless, and ultimately futile aspect of life. Sigh.

thats odd @Colton - could you share more of the stack trace by chance?

This is all im getting at the moment: _ _ _ _ _ _ _____ | _ \ _ \ __| __| __/ _| _| | _/ / _|| _|| | (_ | | |_| |_|_\___|_| |___\___| |_| Configure Prefect to communicate with the server with: prefect config set PREFECT_API_URL=http://127.0.0.1:4200/api View the API reference documentation at http://127.0.0.1:4200/docs Check out the dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:4200 [Errno 13] error while attempting to bind on address ('127.0.0.1', 4200): an attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions Server stopped! I was messing with some port forwarding stuff when attempting to host prefect via ubuntu in WSL which i think is causing this issue now

yep there should be, lemme find the setting

cool thanks! Whats the best way to change this value ?

@Marvin whats the windows analogue of setting env vars for duration of a process like

PREFECT_SERVER_API_PORT=8001 prefect server start

To set an environment variable for the duration of a single command on Windows, you can use the following syntax in the Command Prompt:

batch
set PREFECT_SERVER_API_PORT=8001 && prefect server start

Here's what you need to do: 1. Open Command Prompt. 2. Execute the command above. This sets the

PREFECT_SERVER_API_PORT

environment variable to 8001 only for the duration of the

prefect server start

command. For more contextual information, you can refer to the Prefect documentation on environment variables and deployments: - Overriding Job Variables - Prefect Settings Guide I hope this helps, though it probably won't solve your actual problem. Nothing ever really does, does it?

Ah that did the trick!