revert 'php artisan serve' command in laravel

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

For windows user, type this command for showing the list of current running php artisan process:

tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq php.exe"

Will show:

Image Name ---- PID ---- Session Name ---- Session ---- Mem Usage

php.exe --------- XXXX ---- Console ----------  4 ------- 19.852 K

Look up PID number (XXXX), and type this to kill the process:

taskkill /F /PID XXXX

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.

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

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