django change default runserver port

Question

create a bash script with the following:

#!/bin/bash
exec ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:<your_port>

save it as runserver in the same dir as manage.py

chmod +x runserver

and run it as

./runserver

Actually the easiest way to change (only) port in development Django server is just like:

python manage.py runserver 7000

that should run development server on http://127.0.0.1:7000/

As of Django 1.9, the simplest solution I have found (based on Quentin Stafford-Fraser's solution) is to add a few lines to manage.py which dynamically modify the default port number before invoking the runserver command:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "project.settings.dev")

    import django
    django.setup()

    # Override default port for `runserver` command
    from django.core.management.commands.runserver import Command as runserver
    runserver.default_port = "8080"

    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line

    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)

All of the following commands are possible to change the port while running django:

python manage.py runserver 127.0.0.1:7000

python manage.py runserver 7000

python manage.py runserver 0:7000

Create a subclass of django.core.management.commands.runserver.Command and overwrite the default_port member. Save the file as a management command of your own, e.g. under <app-name>/management/commands/runserver.py:

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.management.commands import runserver

class Command(runserver.Command):
    default_port = settings.RUNSERVER_PORT

I'm loading the default port form settings here (which in turn reads other configuration files), but you could just as well read it from some other file directly.

We created a new 'runserver' management command which is a thin wrapper around the standard one but changes the default port. Roughly, you create management/commands/runserver.py and put in something like this:

# Override the value of the constant coded into django...
import django.core.management.commands.runserver as runserver
runserver.DEFAULT_PORT="8001"

# ...print out a warning...
# (This gets output twice because runserver fires up two threads (one for autoreload).
#  We're living with it for now :-)
import os
dir_path = os.path.splitext(os.path.relpath(__file__))[0]
python_path = dir_path.replace(os.sep, ".")
print "Using %s with default port %s" % (python_path, runserver.DEFAULT_PORT)

# ...and then just import its standard Command class.
# Then manage.py runserver behaves normally in all other regards.
from django.core.management.commands.runserver import Command

In Pycharm you can simply add the port to the parameters