0.13dev : shutdown of WSGIRefServer

[josephernest]

Since 0.13dev now exposes the server object in self.srv for the WSGIRefServer, we could use it for shutdown like this, which is essentially the same than this answer on StackOverflow:

import bottle
@bottle.route('/')
def index():
    return 'hello'
@bottle.route('/stop')
def stopit():
    print('Stopping')
    server.srv.shutdown()
server = bottle.WSGIRefServer(port=80)
bottle.run(server=server)
print('Bye')

Opening http://localhost/ works, but opening http://localhost/stop does not, why?

[josephernest]

I solved it with a new thread:

from bottle import WSGIRefServer, run, route
from threading import Thread

@route('/')
def index():
    return 'Hello world'

@route('/stop')
def stopit():
    Thread(target=shutdown).start()

def shutdown():
    server.srv.shutdown()

server = WSGIRefServer(port=80)
run(server=server)

[MartinRamm]

For anyone else struggling to start the server again after shutting it down: you may need to call server_close as well to free up the port and avoid error: [Errno 98] Address already in use errors.

Extending from the example above:

def shutdown():
    server.srv.shutdown()
    server.srv.server_close()