How do I shut down a python simpleHTTPserver?

python d3.js simplehttpserver
Suz picture Suz · Sep 28, 2012 · Viewed 96.5k times · Source

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 &

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 <pid>? 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 <pid> gives a Finder warning in a separate window 'Python quit unexpectedly'.

The default kill <pid> and kill -15 <pid> are relatively clean (and simple).

Answer

xbello picture xbello · Sep 28, 2012

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?

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