Am I able to change the port?

[katsie03]

Hi there, I looked through your docs but found nothing with referencing to changing ports for code-server. Since port 8080 is somehow already within use on a clean vps (http-alt) and killing the task does nothing. Is there a way to change the port or does it have to be 8080? Thank you!

[jsjoeio]

Sounds like we need to add that to the docs! It's not very obvious, but if you run code-server --help, you see this flag:

--bind-addr            Address to bind to in host:port. You can also use $PORT to override the port.

If you just want to override the port, you can do PORT=3000 code-server which is what I usually do.

[katsie03]

Thank you very much for this!

[katsie03]

@jsjoeio Is there a way to change it to localhost as well instead of 127.0.0.1? Only because it is a VPS and I have no physical local access to the web address

[jsjoeio]

Hmm...that ventures a bit out of my areas of expertise so I'm going to pull in @code-asher to see if he knows

[katsie03]

Thanks!

[code-asher]

Something like --bind-addr localhost:8081 should do it although code-server may report it is using 127.0.0.1 anyway since that's usually what it resolves to.