revert 'php artisan serve' command in laravel

Question

I have a laravel app. I ran 'php artisan serve' command for local testing and my app was served at localhost:8000. But now I want to stop serving it at localhost:8000 ie., I want it not to serve now.

I closed the command line, restarted the server but it is still serving. How can it be done?

Note: I am using windows for testing purposes.

Answer 1

here is what i do press ctrl+ c

> lsof -i :8000

to check if the port is busy or not if any process is listening to the port 8000 it will be displayed with port id

> sudo  kill -9 [PID]

kill the process that listen to that port id

run lsof agin

> sudo lsof -i 8000

vola

Answer 2

Press Ctrl + Shift + ESC. Locate the php process running artisan and kill it with right click -> kill process.

Reopen the command-line and start back the server.

Note that you should be able to kill the process just by sending it a kill signal with Ctrl + C.

Answer 3

I used Ctrl + C in my mac for stop the command php artisan laravel serve