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Justin
Justin

Reputation: 1479

Closed the terminal window running the server, but upon trying to rerun the server is says port still in use

I ran python manage.py runserver and the website was running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/. I closed the terminal window running the server, reopened terminal and tried to run python manage.py runserver again, but it says Error: That port is already in use. I can't quit the server with Control-C like I normally do, so I am not sure what do to here? Thanks for any help.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1138

Answers (1)

bmons
bmons

Reputation: 3392

Follow these steps to kill the server that's running.

$ lsof -i :8000

8000 is the port. So, if your using django and you run python manage.py runserver it's likely your port will be "8000"

That command will yield something like:

COMMAND  PID   USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
python  1158   biju    3u  IPv4 0x4ae303085ae91559      0t0  TCP localhost:irdmi (LISTEN)

Except under "biju" it would have your username. Do you see the value under "PID" this is the number you need. Now you just kill that process.

$ kill -9 1158

Let's do that one more time:

$ lsof -i :8000

COMMAND  PID   USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
python  4894 biju    3u  IPv4 0x4ae3030864c1dd41      0t0  TCP localhost:irdmi (LISTEN)

$ kill -9 4894

And that's it. You can kill this server without an error running.

Upvotes: 5

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