Port not freed on stopping the appium server 2.0.1

[wreed]

@Aditya_Anand2

is there any simplified way to shut down the server and restart the server without killing a process using port number?

Sure, here are a number of ways to do so:

control + c
pkill -9 -f appium
killall -KILL node

You may eventually find it easier to stop the Appium server from your code. This is a good place to find such info:

Launching and stopping appium server programmtically

[Update] For a complete updated guide with code example, please refer to this. @karthik_holla I am gonna use Java and Windows to help explain that to you, you can use the equivalent of that in your preferred language/OS: To start Appium server programmatically, you need the following: Command executor tool (I prefer the second approach as it will handle most of the OS specific problems on your behalf): Java’s built-in Process class. Apache Commons Exec. Tell the tool what program you n…