Change node.js server port?

[Jeremy Canady]

Is it possible to change the port the node.js server uses? 8080 is very common. It would be extremely handy to change the port with a simple command line switch. 

[RA]

On Linux:
Edit "node_modules/tiddlywiki/serve.sh", replacing literal "8080" with "$1", then start with "serve.sh <your_port>"

I'm sure you can adapt the above for Windows.

[Jeremy Canady]

Thanks RA.

I am using the node module and the tiddlywiki --server switch to start the server. After digging through the source code, I found I can actually just place the port after the --server switch.

tiddlywiki --server <port>

[Michele Zaffalon]

Jeremy,

Thanks for the pointer, that is interesting.

Could you point me to where in the code <port> is passed to node? From my question, you have guessed right, I am not familiar with Javascript...

Thank you,

michele

[Matabele]

Hi

There's a handy cross platform utility called 'zenity' for creating dialog boxes in shell scripts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenity

I use the following script (in Linux) to load my various wikis -- this allows me to choose both a wiki to serve and a port for the server:

#!/bin/sh
wiki=$(zenity --title="Start Wikis" --list --height=300 --text="Choose which wiki to start" --radiolist --column="" --column="Wiki" a wiki1 b wiki2 c wiki3 ... x blank)
port=$(zenity --title="Select Port" --list --height=300 --text="Choose which port" --radiolist --column="" --column="Port" a 8080 b 8081 c 8082 d 8083 ...)
cd /path/to/wikis/$wiki; tiddlywiki --server $port || exit 1

-- where each of the parameters wiki1, wiki2 etc is the name of the folder containing the wiki.

regards

[Michele Zaffalon]

Hi,

Thank you for the reply but evidently I posed the question in a terrible way: I meant to ask how in the code the parameter <port> is passed to node.js.

I start the three tiddlywikis I use from the command line.

Best,

michele

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[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Michele

> I meant to ask how in the code the parameter <port> is passed to node.js.

The port parameter is handled in server.js, which contains the HTTP server functionality:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/core%2Fmodules%2Fcommands%2Fserver.js#L283

As you can see, the port number is passed to TW on the command line as the final parameter to the --server command.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[Michele Zaffalon]

Thank you Jeremy, for your detailed answer.

Best regards,

michele