[HELP] Sponge server on Linux

Hello guys, i have been setting up a modded minecraft server with my friends and I wanted to put plugins, but the problem is that my server, doesn’t load sponge, by doing right installation, in folders I have something set up like this

I have modified sponge’s name to make server start it as the first mod and in the 2nd picture, you’ll see that sponge somehow didn’t start.

Is there any solution to this?
Thanks

It looks like you’re running the Miencraft jar file, not the Forge one, as it’s not loading any mods either. Adjust your run.sh script to execute the forge jar.

Okay, thank you, now I get a error as “Perhaps a server is already running on that port?”
How do I fix that?

“failed to bind port” is typically caused where another server is running.

Make sure you are turning off your server with the command “stop” as closing the terminal just closes the terminal and not the server.

To fix the issue you can restart your linux machine to close down all servers, from there you can boot your server again