Django's LiveServerTestCase Always Fails Due to Conflicting Address… Despite Address Appearing Free

Question

I\'m currently working on cleaning my Django functional tests to use the LiveServerTestCase rather than bouncing selenium based tests off an instance of the development envi

Answer 1

You can set (in settings.py) the environment variable DJANGO_LIVE_TEST_SERVER_ADDRESS to include multiple ranges of ports that will be attempted:

os.environ['DJANGO_LIVE_TEST_SERVER_ADDRESS']="localhost:8000-8010,8080,9200-9300"

Had the same issue myself, maybe this helps someone out.