How do I shut down a python simpleHTTPserver

Question

So I m trying to learn d3  and the wiki suggested that       To view the examples locally  you must have a local web server  Any   web server will work  for example you can run Python s built-in   server       python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888  amp     Great    only now I have a server running    but at some point I think I should probably shut that down again    Is there a better way of shutting it down than using kill  lt pid gt   That seems like kind of a big hammer for a little job      I m running Mac OS 10 6 8  Snow Leopard    FWIW  ctrl c gives about 10 lines of traceback  complaining about being interrupted   kill -3  lt pid gt  gives a Finder warning in a separate window  Python quit unexpectedly     The default kill  lt pid gt  and kill -15  lt pid gt  are relatively clean  and simple

User · Answer

When you run a program as a background process (by adding an & after it), e.g.:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 &

If the terminal window is still open you can do:

jobs

To get a list of all background jobs within the running shell's process.

It could look like this:

$ jobs
[1]+  Running                 python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 &

To kill a job, you can either do kill %1 to kill job "[1]", or do fg %1 to put the job in the foreground (fg) and then use ctrl-c to kill it. (Simply entering fg will put the last backgrounded process in the foreground).

With respect to SimpleHTTPServer it seems kill %1 is better than fg + ctrl-c. At least it doesn't protest with the kill command.

The above has been tested in Mac OS, but as far as I can remember it works just the same in Linux.

Update: For this to work, the web server must be started directly from the command line (verbatim the first code snippet). Using a script to start it will put the process out of reach of jobs.

User · Answer

Hitting ctrl   c once wait for traceback   then hitting ctrl c again did the trick for me

User · Answer

Turns out there is a shutdown  but this must be initiated from another thread   This solution worked for me  https   stackoverflow com a 22533929 573216

User · Answer

You are simply sending signals to the processes  kill is a command to send those signals    The keyboard command Ctrl C sends a SIGINT  kill -9 sends a SIGKILL  and kill -15 sends a SIGTERM    What signal do you want to send to your server to end it

User · Answer

It seems like overkill but you can use supervisor to start and stop your simpleHttpserver  and completely manage it as a service   Or just run it in the foreground as suggested and kill it with control c

User · Answer

if you have started the server with  python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888    then you can press ctrl   c to down the server   But if you have started the server with   python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888  amp    or   python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888  amp  disown   you have to see the list first to kill the process   run command   ps   or   ps aux   less   it will show you some running process like this     PID TTY          TIME CMD 7247 pts 3     00 00 00 python 7360 pts 3     00 00 00 ps 23606 pts 3    00 00 00 bash   you can get the PID from here  and kill that process by running this command    kill -9 7247   here 7247 is the python id   Also for some reason if the port still open you can shut down the port with this command   fuser -k 8888 tcp  here 8888 is the tcp port opened by python   Hope its clear now

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MYPORT 8888   kill -9  ps -ef  grep SimpleHTTPServer  grep  MYPORT  awk   print  2     That is it  Explain command line    ps -ef    list all process   grep SimpleHTTPServer   filter process which belong to  quot SimpleHTTPServer quot   grep  MYPORT     filter again process belong to  quot SimpleHTTPServer quot  where port is MYPORT   i e  MYPORT 8888   awk   print  2     print second column of result which is the PID  Process ID   kill -9  lt PID gt     Force Kill process with the appropriate PID

User · Answer

or you can just do kill  1  which will kill the first job put in background

[python] How do I shut down a python simpleHTTPserver?

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