Django Server Error: port is already in use

Question

Restarting the Django server displays the following error:

this port is already running....

This problem occurs specifically on Ubuntu and

Answer 1

Sorry for comment in an old post but It may help people

Just type this on your terminal

killall -9 python3

It will kill all python3 running on your machine and it will free your all port. Greatly help me when to work in Django project.

Answer 2

netstat -ntlp

It will show something like this.

   Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State           PID/Program name    
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8000          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      6599/python         
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:27017         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -                   
tcp        0      0 192.168.124.1:53        0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -                   
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -                   
tcp6       0      0 :::3306                 :::*                    LISTEN     

So now just close the port in which Django/python running already by killing the process associated with it.

kill -9 PID

in my case

kill -9 6599

Now run your Django app.

Answer 3

ps aux | grep manage

ubuntu 3438 127.0.0 2.3 40256 14064 pts/0 T 06:47 0:00 python manage.py runserver

kill -9 3438

Answer 4

Type 'fg' as command after that ctl-c.
Command:
Fg will show which is running on background. After that ctl-c will stop it.

fg
ctl-c