Server is already running in Rails

Question

When I am starting rails server using rails s command it is showing A server is already running. Check C:/Sites/folder/Pids/Server.pids

Whe

Answer 1

Just open that C:/Sites/folder/Pids/Server.pids and copy that 4 digit value.that 4 digit value is nothing but a PID, which you need to kill to stop the already running process.

then to stop the process use below command

 kill -9 <pid>

once that already running process get stopped then hit

rails s to start the rails server

Answer 2

Remove the file: C:/Sites/folder/Pids/Server.pids

Explanation In UNIX land at least we usually track the process id (pid) in a file like server.pid. I think this is doing the same thing here. That file was probably left over from a crash.

Answer 3

It happens when you kill your server process and the pid file was not updated. The best solution is to delete the file Server.pid.

Use the command

rm <path to file Server.pid>