How do I kill Wagtail server

Question

I've completed the installation process for Wagtail on Linode but I am having problems in deploying it. I started the server with ./manage.py runserver but accidentally exited without stopping the server.

The ./manage.py help command is not showing how to stop the server. What's the best way to stop it so that I can restart it on 0.0.0.0:8000? Should I just reboot the Linode server?

Can anyone help me with this ?

Answer 1

Here is the explanation regarding the above query.

If you'll kill the process, it will stop the wagtail server.

First search for your process id (PID), filtering by "manage.py runserver"

ps aux | grep "manage.py runserver"

You will see something like this:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
[...]
user        38  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S     2433   0:00 python manage.py runserver 0:8000

Then you can kill your process using kill -9 $PID, in this example $PID is 38:

# Terminate running process    
kill -9 38

Now you should be able to start your app normaly with using:

./manage.py runserver

Restarting your Linode server will also solve this, but its like killing a fly with a hammer.

I hope that above explanation will be helpful to you.