How To Clear Out Localhost:8000?

It is not clear what you are asking. 8000 is just a port. localhost just refers to your computer. There is nothing to clear. You would use localhost:8000 in a browser for example to access a web page running in a web server on your computer on port 8000.

So be more discriptive about your issue and provide some context such as why you are asking the question.

Gatsby>Preferences>Ports

make changes to your local host.

see:

closing your broswer window, stoppingthe gatsby develop server from the terminal using ctrl c. Now run gatsby develop again and open http://localhost:8000/hello-world

ref:

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-react-and-gatsby-powered-blog-in-about-10-minutes-625c35c06481/

It appears the Gatsby server is still running on localhost:8000. Perhaps shutting down Gatsby or rebooting would stop the server running on localhost:8000. You could also ask Gatsby support why their server continues to run when no longer needed.

I think that's what I said. What is not understood is what you are asking about "clearing". Your question makes no sense. If you want to disable localhost on your computer stop running a web server on your computer. If you want to just stop the web server from using port 8000 change the port the server is running on in your web server config file.

In Finder->Go->Go to Folder: type

/private/etc/hosts

It will show you the hosts file

the hosts file should read (open with textedit):

##

# Host Database

#

# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface

# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.

##

127.0.0.1 localhost

255.255.255.255 broadcasthost

::1 localhost

If it is different, replace with the lines above

save

restart.

Maybe it will clear itself after a restart.

But what I meant is that after you change the hosts file, you must restart to make the differences effective.

"localhosts:8000" should not be on your mac, wherever, even in a deep search it should not be found.

Next thing to check is in all Network settings.

Thank you Bob. Good analysis, thanks.

Lex