How to 'clear' the port when restarting django runserver

Question

Often, when restarting Django runserver, if I use the same port number, I get a \'port is already in use\' message. Subsequently, I need to increment the port number each t

Answer 1

You do not want to simply increment the port number when restarting a Django server. This will result in having multiple instances of the Django server running simultaneously. A better solution is to kill the current instance and start a new instance.

To do this, you have multiple options. The easiest is

Python2: $ killall -9 python

Python3: $ killall -9 python3

If for some reason, this doesn't work, you can do

$ kill where is the process id found from a simple $ ps aux | grep python command.