Stop running PHP server, command line

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So I've done php -S localhost:8000, but I don't need it anymore, I need my 8000 localhost back. How to stop the php server?

score 26 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 18 '18 at 00:21

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killall -9 php

That's how I would do it!

answered Jan 18 '18 at 00:21

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score 24 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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PHP 5.4.0 Development Server started at Thu Jul 21 10:43:28 2011
Listening on localhost:8000
Document root is /home/me/public_html
Press Ctrl-C to quit.

If you don't have that terminal open, you have to find the PID of the process and kill that.

To find the PID and kill the process, here is a nice explanation.

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answered Jul 25 '16 at 06:40

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 21 '22 at 08:40

The best way is to close the terminal window as we cannot type anything while the server is running!

Press the (X) button on the top right(on Windows/Linux)/Press the red color circle on the top left(on Mac OS) of the terminal window to stop the PHP server from running.

To verify, reload the server page and you will find a server not reachable page in place of your server page.

Stop running PHP server, command line

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