'WinError 10013' running Django on Windows

Question

It has been almost a month since I got this problem, and I really appreciate your help. While trying to login in my Django Web App, i encounter OSError at /accounts/login/.I am able to login in 127.0.0.1:8000/admin, but not in the /accounts/login which produces the Error Code:

OSError at /accounts/login/
[WinError 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions

Request Method: POST
Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/accounts/login/
Django Version: 1.11.1
Exception Type: OSError
Exception Value:    
[WinError 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions
Exception Location: C:\Python35-32\lib\socket.py in create_connection, line 702
Python Executable:  C:\Python35-32\myvenv_python3\Scripts\python.exe
Python Version: 3.5.2
Python Path:    
['C:\\Users\\Kaleab\\Desktop\\ecomstore',
 'C:\\Python35-32\\lib\\site-packages\\sqlalchemy-1.1.7-py3.5-win32.egg',
 'C:\\Python27',
 'C:\\Python35-32\\myvenv_python3\\Lib\\site-packages',
 'C:\\Python35-32',
 'C:\\Users\\Kaleab\\Desktop\\ecomstore',
 'C:\\Python35-32\\myvenv_python3\\Scripts\\python35.zip',
 'C:\\Python35-32\\DLLs',
 'C:\\Python35-32\\lib',
 'C:\\Python35-32\\myvenv_python3\\Scripts',
 'C:\\Python35-32\\lib\\site-packages',
 'C:\\Python35-32\\lib\\site-packages\\win32',
 'C:\\Python35-32\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib',
 'C:\\Python35-32\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin']

Possible Causes and Solutions

Cause: Socket access needs administrative privilege. Attempted Solution: • Granted Administrator access to python.exe by navigating to the virtual environment. • Navigate to CMD.exe , right click , properties, grant administrator privilege.
Cause: Port can be already used by another program. Attempted Solution: Checked the ports using TCPView windows program and see that the port 8000 is not used by another program.
Cause: Socket access blocked by Firewall and Antivirus. Attempted Solution: When I tried disabling Firewall and Antivirus, I get another error ConnectionRefusedError at accounts/login/ [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
Cause: Winsock has malfunctioned. Attempted Solution: Tried and successfully reset winsock, but this did not solve it either.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2778840/socket-error-errno-10013-an-attempt-was-made-to-access-a-socket-in-a-way-forb — gliptak, Jul 19 '17 at 14:16
@gliptak I saw that post, unfortunately did not solve my problem. I am not sure if it is a User Account Control (UAC) issue in Windows 8.1. Although I can run as Administrator, I am still denied socket permission. I have looked into cheking FIrewall and Antivirus , but to no avail. — Kaleab Woldemariam, Jul 20 '17 at 11:14

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 31 '17 at 16:37

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I will take running the server with different port as the answer, although I am not able to see port 8000 is used in stackoverflow suggested commands. Use: python manage.py runserver 8080.

answered Aug 31 '17 at 16:37

Kaleab Woldemariam

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Worked for me. However, it is quite strange to know that the port 8000 was not being used anywhere else. Regardless, this trick worked for me. – Abbas Nov 12 '18 at 06:22
This worked for me as well, but don't know why it worked – manpikin Feb 19 '19 at 08:44
It worked for me but I would like to know why a port might be used somewhere else all on a sudden.TIA – Sihat Afnan Jul 18 '20 at 18:54

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 08 '19 at 11:10

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Changing the port worked for me, I was trying to run the django server. Its not a firewall issue just type port in front of your command

python manage.py runserver 7000

answered Dec 08 '19 at 11:10

Amit nayal

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 07 '18 at 20:56

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Since changing the port worked for @Kaleab, the problem may have been another process using that port.

I just found a Firefox process with a loopback connection from port 5000 to port 5000 (strange?). Once I closed Firefox, I was able to start my Flask server without that error.

To find out which process is using the port, see here.

answered Feb 07 '18 at 20:56

Neal Gokli

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When I run netstat -a -b in my cmd, one of the lines was [svchost.exe] TCP [::]:8000 TIA-NEXCHMB1:0 LISTENING. I think my application was trying to use a port that was already being used, because I was attempting to run a django application on 8000. So I changed my port to 8080 and it woked – manpikin Feb 19 '19 at 08:50

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 05 '20 at 17:47

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run the command with port number 8080 as follows

python manage.py runserver 8080

answered Sep 05 '20 at 17:47

Sadhana Singh

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 21 '20 at 06:38

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Just restart your computer and run
python manage.py runserver
or
python manage.py runserver PORT_NUMBER
or
python manage.py runserver 8000
or
python manage.py runserver 8080

answered Sep 21 '20 at 06:38

Vikash P

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 16 '20 at 15:29

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It is possible that you have another process running that is using the port. Finding and killing the process will enable you to use the 8000 port.

answered Oct 16 '20 at 15:29

David Louda

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 11 '20 at 19:12

I got the Error Message due to my Antivirus App (Kaspersky). All i had to do was to assign manage.py in Kasperky < manage programms to trustworthy. I have a foreign version so trustworthy is a literal translation, maybe in the english version it is named different.

score -1 · Answer 8 · edited Mar 13 '21 at 05:58

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I solved this using a different port:

python manage.py runserver 9999

9999 Worked for me

edited Mar 13 '21 at 05:58

Rishabh Kumar

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answered Mar 12 '21 at 17:30

Paul Cleghorn

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