How to kill a localhost process on macOS
December 12, 2019
Sometimes you’ve got a development server running on a localhost port in the background that you can’t seem to stop.
For example, if the port is localhost:8000
, run:
sudo lsof -i :8000
You should see the processes running on that port. Take note of the PID
for these processes.
Then, run:
kill -9 <PID>
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