django change default runserver port

Question

I would like to make the default port that manage.py runserver listens on specifiable in an extraneous config.ini. Is there an easier fix than parsing sys.argv inside manage.py and inserting the configured port?

The goal is to run ./manage.py runserver without having to specify address and port every time but having it take the arguments from the config.ini.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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/

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

I was struggling with the same problem and found one solution. I guess it can help you. when you run python manage.py runserver, it will take 127.0.0.1 as default ip address and 8000 as default port number which can be configured in your python environment. In your python setting, go to <your python env>\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py and set 1. default_port = '<your_port>'
2. find this under def handle and set
if not options.get('addrport'): self.addr = '0.0.0.0' self.port = self.default_port

Now if you run "python manage.py runserver" it will run by default on "0.0.0.0:

Enjoy coding .....

Answer 5

In Pycharm you can simply add the port to the parameters

Answer 6

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)