Http-server: Can't stop it with Ctrl + C [Windows only]

[nicolasparada]

It's very weird. I cannot stop the server with Ctrl + C.
I'm on windows 10 with the power shell D:

[Paulooze]

I have the same problem. If I hit Ctrl + C, then Enter, it looks like server has stopped, but it hasn't. Also, it seems like it's ignoring set port (server should run on port 8080, but locahost:anyport returns the page), which results in conflicts with server running on different port.
Same OS, windows 10.

[BrianSipple]

+1

[janbiasi]

+1

[derhuerst]

If you do http-server -p 8888, what does it report?

[janbiasi]

Report for @derhuerst

> node node_modules/http-server/bin/http-server -o --cors -p 8888

Starting up http-server, serving ./
Available on:
  http:10.1.3.70:8888
  http:127.0.0.1:8888
Hit CTRL-C to stop the server
[Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:37:56 GMT] "GET /" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.106 Safari/537.36"
[Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:37:56 GMT] "GET /dist/dependencies.js" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.106 Safari/537.36"
[Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:37:56 GMT] "GET /dist/application.js" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.106 Safari/537.36"
[Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:37:56 GMT] "GET /favicon.ico" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) 
^C^C^C^C^C

[derhuerst]

There has been a significant amount of changes since http-server@latest. Try master from GitHub and check if the issue is resolved.

[janbiasi]

I've just noticed that Ctrl + C works on my Mac but not on windows. Hope this helps for future bugfixing.

@derhuerst I don't want to have a NPM package working state in my project but thanks for your help :smiley:

[derhuerst]

@janbiasi why in your project? clone the repo, install dependencies and call the executable.

[janbiasi]

@derhuerst because I use it as a dependecy in a project for a customer and I only use dependencies which I can maintain with a package manager. Main reason is that other collaborators will get a mess If i use NPM, Bower and direct clones from GitHub repositories. So it won't make any sense if the master would resolve the Ctrl + C issue :wink:

[derhuerst]

@janbiasi

So it won't make any sense if the master would resolve the Ctrl + C issue

First, npm can also load dependencies from Git repos, including tags (for releases).

Second, there is a general interest in fixing bugs in this package, so it would help if cloned it somewhere and just quickly checked if the bug still appears on master.

[janbiasi]

@derhuerst I said that I use NPM and Bower already, but I won't use the master branch in the project. Instead found another package that works pretty good. Maybe checking the master branch of this proj if I'll have enough time.

[samirop]

+1 in raspbian

[derhuerst]

@samirop Did you try http-server@latest (using npm normally) or master?

[Davidster]

+1

[mmyrland]

+1

[BigBlueHat]

This issue is fairly random...and I haven't yet been able to pin down the cause (as it's not been consistently a problem). However, I do now (occasionally...) witness this on Windows 10 running Node 8.6.0 and http-server 0.10.0.

If any of you have more info on scenarios that cause (or prevent) this, do tell!

[cmloegcmluin]

+1

Seemingly random, maybe once every 20 times?

Windows 10 (MINGW)
Node 8.11.1

[dachinat]

Does not work on mac

[danielcodrea]

+1 have the same problem on
windows 10
node 10.9.0

[thornjad]

For anyone who's having this issue, does CTRL+D work at all?