How do I shut down a python simpleHTTPserver?

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?

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 &

or

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 & 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 CMD7247 pts/3     00:00:00 python7360 pts/3     00:00:00 ps23606 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.

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 "SimpleHTTPServer"

• grep $MYPORT : filter again process belong to "SimpleHTTPServer" where port is MYPORT (.i.e: MYPORT=8888)

• awk '{print $2}' : print second column of result which is the PID (Process ID)

• kill -9 <PID> : Force Kill process with the appropriate PID.