<p style="margin-bottom: 1em; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 17.8048000335693px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">If you want to change the default port number so when you run the "runserver" command you start with your preferred port do this:</span></p><ol style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 17.8048000335693px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Find your python installation. (you can have multiple pythons installed and you can have your virtual environment version as well so make sure you find the right one)</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Inside the python folder locate the site-packages folder. Inside that you will find your django installation</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Open the django folder-> core -> management -> commands</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Inside the commands folder open up the runserver.py script with a text editor</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Find the DEFAULT_PORT field. it is equal to 8000 by default. Change it to whatever you like</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">DEFAULT_PORT = "8080"</span></code></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Restart your server: python manage.py runserver and see that it uses your set port number</span></li></ol><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 17.8048000335693px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It works with python 2.7 but it should work with newer versions of python as well. Good luck</span></p>
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