Question

I’m creating a packaged project usingdist and am trying to modify the generated start script to run the app on port 9001.

Here is what is generated:

exec java $* -cp "`dirname $0`/lib/*" play.core.server.NettyServer `dirname $0`

Here is what I tried, which doesn’t seem to work.

exec java $* -Dhttp.port=9001 -cp "`dirname $0`/lib/*" play.core.server.NettyServer `dirname $0`

Any ideas?

I’ve also tried specifying http.port=9001 in application.conf with no avail. It was very easy to do this in Play 1.2.X, seems a step backward.

Answer 1

After running play dist and then extracting the generated bundle, you can start Play 2 on a different port by running:

./start -Dhttp.port=5432

Or if you would rather edit the start script you can update it to be:

#!/usr/bin/env sh

exec java $* -Dhttp.port=5432 -cp "`dirname $0`/lib/*" play.core.server.NettyServer `dirname $0`

And then run:

./start