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4 Shutting down Python BasicHTTPServer
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You already have a process bound to the default port (8000). If you already ran the same module 0 How can i change a service running on one
before, it is most likely that process still bound to the port. Try and locate the other process first: port number, now i want to run another
397 service on same old port number

$ ps -fA | grep python 1 Weird Errno 48 Address already in use

501 81651 12648 0 9:53PM ttys000 0:00.16 python -m SimpleHTTPServer behaviour python

0 OSError: [Errno 48] Address already in use

The command arguments are included, so you can spot the one running SimpleHTTPServer if
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The second number is the process number; stop the server by sending it a signal: within shell script?

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This sends a standard SIGTERM signal; if the process is unresponsive you may have to resort to dictionary
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Use

43 sudo lsof -i:5000

This will give you a list of processes using the port if any. Once the list of processes is given, use
the id on the PID column to terminate the process use

kill 379 #use the provided PID

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1 That's perfect, especially those working on MAC OSX and didn't use SO_REUSEPORT instead of
SO_REUSEADDR – snr May 13 '19 at 20:32

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Simple one line command to get rid of it, type below command in terminal,

19 ps -a

This will list out all process, checkout which is being used by Python and type bellow command in
terminal,

kill -9 (processID)

For example kill -9 33178

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3 Working on MacOSX (i do not know if that is relevant), but I had to use the "-9" argument to make it work.
This is the only answer that mentions that. – Ideogram Sep 29 '20 at 13:24

Works for me! Thank you. – XIAOLONG LI Apr 11 at 19:46

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By the way, to prevent this from happening in the first place, simply press Ctrl + C in terminal
while SimpleHTTPServer is still running normally. This will "properly" stop the server and release
17 the port so you don't have to find and kill the process again before restarting the server.

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Useful info here, I was pressing Ctrl+Z unconciously and the process got kept alive. Ctrl+C releases the
port so no need to manually kill it. – BcK Dec 15 '20 at 14:42

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You can also serve on the next-highest available port doing something like this in Python:

8 import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer

Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

port = 8000
while True:
try:
httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(('', port), Handler)
print 'Serving on port', port
httpd.serve_forever()
except SocketServer.socket.error as exc:
if exc.args[0] != 48:
raise
print 'Port', port, 'already in use'
port += 1
else:
break

If you need to do the same thing for other utilities, it may be more convenient as a bash script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

MIN_PORT=${1:-1025}
MAX_PORT=${2:-65535}

(netstat -atn | awk '{printf "%s\n%s\n", $4, $4}' | grep -oE '[0-9]*$'; seq "$MIN_PORT" "$MAX_PORT") | sort -R | head -n 1

Set that up as a executable with the name get-free-port and you can do something like this:

someprogram --port=$(get-free-port)

That's not as reliable as the native Python approach because the bash script doesn't capture the
port -- another process could grab the port before your process does (race condition) -- but still
may be useful enough when using a utility that doesn't have a try-try-again approach of its own.

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I am new to Python, but after my brief research I found out that this is typical of sockets being
binded. It just so happens that the socket is still being used and you may have to wait to use it. Or,
6 you can just add:

tcpSocket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)

This should make the port available within a shorter time. In my case, it made the port available
almost immediately.

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Just in case above solutions didn't work:

5 1. Get the port your process is listening to:

$ ps ax | grep python

2. Kill the Process

$ kill PROCESS_NAME

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You can allow the server to reuse an address with allow_reuse_address .

5 Whether the server will allow the reuse of an address. This defaults to False , and can be
set in subclasses to change the policy.

import SimpleHTTPServer, SocketServer

PORT = 8000
httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd.allow_reuse_address = True
print "Serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()

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I have a raspberry pi, and I am using python web server (using Flask). I have tried everything
above, the only solution is to close the terminal(shell) and open it again. Or restart the
3 raspberry pi, because nothing stops that webserver...

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This commonly happened use case for any developer.

0 It is better to have it as function in your local system. (So better to keep this script in one of the
shell profile like ksh/zsh or bash profile based on the user preference)

function killport {
kill -9 `lsof -i tcp:"$1" | grep LISTEN | awk '{print $2}'`
}

Usage:

killport port_number

Example:

killport 8080

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Adding to the answer from Michael Schmid Just had the problem, to allow rebinding of the port use
needs to SUBCLASS the socket server like this:
0
from socketserver import TCPServer, BaseRequestHandler
from typing import Tuple, Callable
class MySockServer(TCPServer):
def __init__(self, server_address: Tuple[str, int], RequestHandlerClass: Callable[..., BaseRequestHandler]):
self.allow_reuse_address = True
super().__init__(server_address, RequestHandlerClass)

because after instantiation, there is not point in changing that flag. Then use it instead of
TCPServer or whatever you are using.

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