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I use a Cloud server to test my django small project, I type in manage.py runserver and then I log out my cloud server, I can visit my site normally, but when I reload my cloud server, I don't know how to stop the development server, I had to kill the process to stop it, is there anyway to stop the development?

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    This is a good question. Yes, all of us know how to kill a process but when a service provides a start option, you assume you don't know something... and look for a stop. It is rather an oversight that django breaks this paradigm.
    – KateYoak
    Oct 5, 2015 at 20:39
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    @KateYoak Well, I sent it to Django developers.
    – Brambor
    Sep 7, 2020 at 4:16

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The answer is findable via Google -- and answered in other forums. Example solution is available on the Unix & Linux StackExchange site.

To be explicit, you could do:

ps auxw | grep runserver

This will return the process and its respective PID, such as:

de        7956  1.8  0.6 540204 55212 ?        Sl   13:27   0:09 /home/de/Development/sampleproject/bin/python ./manage.py runserver

In this particular case, the PID is 7956. Now just run this to stop it:

kill 7956

And to be clear / address some of the comments, you have to do it this way because you're running the development server in the background (the & in your command). That's why there is no "built-in" Django stop option...

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    Can you bring the job to the foreground using 'fg' on the command line? I toggled mine to bg then back to fg. Then CONTROL-C stops the job altogether. When I start my server, it prints a few lines of text, the last being "Quit the server with CONTROL-C." February 01, 2018 - 20:31:32 Django version 2.0.1, using settings 'mysite.settings' Starting development server at 127.0.0.1:8000 Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
    – the_cat_lady
    Feb 1, 2018 at 20:34
  • @the_cat_lady that is a good suggestion, too! I would say that warrants its own answer, since it's another way to do it...
    – user
    Feb 1, 2018 at 21:06
  • Unfortunately, Django launches a child process, which makes two process, which makes it hard to kill from a script. Especially because killing the parent does not kill the child.
    – Torsten Bronger
    May 22, 2019 at 6:06
  • "The answer is findable via Google" --> I searched on Google and found this current page, from Google :)
    – Patapoom
    Oct 12, 2022 at 8:53
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One liner..

pkill -f runserver
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    awesome. Thats short and sweet.
    – user1953366
    Oct 17, 2019 at 18:26
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    Watch out, in case multiple 'runserver' processes are running!!! This will kill all running "runserver" processes.
    – amolbk
    Jan 30, 2020 at 8:40
  • @amolbk, what is the disadvantage of doing like that ?
    – Utku Can
    Mar 15, 2023 at 11:59
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Try this

lsof -t -i tcp:8000 | xargs kill -9
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  • thanks very much, the only solution that works.
    – Weilory
    Nov 14, 2021 at 6:09
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Ctrl+c should work. If it doesn't Ctrl+/ will force kill the process.

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well it seems that it's a bug that django hadn't provided a command to stop the development server . I thought it have one before~~~~~

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    My ISP provides a very limited shell that kicks me out on some commands, like kill and even ps :) Though I may easily execute python manage.py ... It's a pity to file a support ticket each time I need to execute a single command. So I agree – it's a must to be able to stop the server
    – p.boiko
    Oct 31, 2017 at 15:12
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We can use the following command.

-> netstat -ntlp

then we will get number of process running with PID, find our python server PID and Kill process.

-> kill -9 PID

For example:
enter image description here

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As far as i know ctrl+c or kill process is only ways to do that on remote machine. If you will use Gunicorn server or somethink similar you will be able to do that using Supervisor.

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    ctrl+c will not stop a hearty infinite loop.
    – Marc
    May 7, 2015 at 19:32
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This worked for me on windows.

Use the below command to list all connections and listening ports (-a) along with their PID (-o).

netstat -a -o

Find the PID of the process

Then use this to kill the process

taskkill /PID PUT_THE_PID_HERE /F
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From task manager you can end the python tasks that are running. Now run python manage.py runserver from your project directory and it will work.

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Programmatically using a .bat script in Command Prompt in Windows:

@ECHO OFF
SET /A port=8000
FOR /F "tokens=5" %%T IN ('netstat -ano ^| findstr :%port%') DO (
    SET /A processid=%%T
    TASKKILL /PID %%T /F
)

gives

SUCCESS: The process with PID 5104 has been terminated.

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You can Quit the server by hitting CTRL-BREAK.

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  • Not if it’s in the background.
    – Torsten Bronger
    May 22, 2019 at 5:59

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