diff --git a/cookbook/web_server/built_in.rst b/cookbook/web_server/built_in.rst
index 33289907614..ab8e3635452 100644
--- a/cookbook/web_server/built_in.rst
+++ b/cookbook/web_server/built_in.rst
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ can change the socket passing an IP address and a port as a command-line argumen
 
     $ php app/console server:run 192.168.0.1:8080
 
+.. note::
+
+    You can use the ``--force`` option to force the web server start
+    if the process wasn't correctly stopped (without using the ``server:stop`` command).
+
+    .. code-block:: bash
+
+        $ php app/console server:start --force
+
 .. note::
 
     You can use the ``server:status`` command to check if a web server is