Django runserver permanent

Question

How can I make the development server from django running permanent? So that it does\'t stop when I quit the shell.

Thanks

Answer 1

Like Travis says-- use screen. If you don't already have it installed, go get it:

sudo apt-get install screen
screen

Hit enter. Now it's like you're in a different terminal window.

Start you server with:

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Now you're running the server, and you'd like to get back to your first screen while letting the django app continue running. Screen has a nice feature built-in for that. To get back to your main terminal type:

ctrl+a d

From there, you can get back to the django screen by typing:

screen -r

If you have multiple screens open you can reach the correct one by it's 4-5 digit ID number:

screen -r 1333

And the man pages are pretty good:

man screen