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Stop running PHP server, command line

So I've done php -S localhost:8000, but I don't need it anymore, I need my 8000 localhost back. How to stop the php server?

Solution 
  • PHP 5.4.0 Development Server started at Thu Jul 21 10:43:28 2011
Listening on localhost:8000
Document root is /home/me/public_html
Press Ctrl-C to quit.

    If you don't have that terminal open, you have to find the PID of the process and kill that.

    To find the PID and kill the process, here is a nice explanation.