ionic serve --address not working

[Uriel96]

It seems like the newer version of ionic (2.1.12) doesn't work as expected in the cli.
Last version of ionic 2 (don't remember with exactitude the version).
When I used:

ionic address

it showed me whether I wanted it on localhost or a chosen ip address, but now it doesn't show anything.
Then I try using:

ionic serve --address AN_IP_ADDRESS

and i get the following error:

Uhoh. Got error listen EADDRNOTAVAIL 192.168.15.2:35729 ...                 Error: listen EADDRNOTAVAIL 192.168.15.2:35729
    at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1026:11)                             at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1049:20)
    at Server._listen2 (net.js:1244:19)                                             at listen (net.js:1293:10)
    at net.js:1403:9
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:77:11)                  at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:606:11)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:394:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)
events.js:160
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: listen EADDRNOTAVAIL 192.168.15.2:8100
    at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1026:11)
    at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1049:20)
    at Server._listen2 (net.js:1244:19)
    at listen (net.js:1293:10)
    at net.js:1403:9
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:77:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:606:11)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:394:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)

I have searched in other posts, but without success.
Please help me, it's getting frustrating because I want to test it on the browser of my phone.

[jthoms1]

Could you provide me with the output from ionic info from within your project directory? Thanks, this should help in troubleshooting.

[mayurdhanokar8527]

In my case port 8100 (ionic uses it as default) was blocked, you can either remove binding from 8100 before ionic serve or use this command to run ionic on another port ionic serve -p 8800 -address or any other port that is not bound with any program

[Uriel96]

Sure @jthoms1, it is:
Cordova CLI: 6.4.0
Ionic Framework Version: 2.0.0-rc.3
Ionic CLI Version: 2.1.12
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.1.7
Ionic App Scripts Version: 0.0.46
ios-deploy version: Not installed
ios-sim version: Not installed
OS: Windows 10
Node Version: v6.8.0
Xcode version: Not installed

And @mayurdhanokar8527 I already tried that but it still doesn't work :c

[Mokto]

+1.

I'm using a docker container to run an android app so my container IP is different than my host IP.

$ ionic run android -lcs address                                                                                

Addresss XXX.XX.XX.XX not available.

Cordova CLI: 6.4.0
Ionic Framework Version: 2.0.0-rc.4
Ionic CLI Version: 2.1.17
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.1.7
Ionic App Scripts Version: 0.0.47
ios-deploy version: Not installed
ios-sim version: Not installed
OS: Linux 4.4
Node Version: v6.9.1
Xcode version: Not installed

Seems to come with this commit but I'm not sure : 70531bc

Can you please allow us to run apps specifying the address we want ?

For now I'm using this https://www.garron.me/en/linux/add-secondary-ip-linux.html

[tamerbak]

ionic address returns nothing..

Cordova CLI: 6.3.1 
Ionic Framework Version: 2.0.0-rc.4
Ionic CLI Version: 2.1.17
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.1.7
Ionic App Scripts Version: 0.0.45
ios-deploy version: 1.9.0 
ios-sim version: 5.0.9 
OS: OS X El Capitan
Node Version: v5.12.0
Xcode version: Xcode 8.2 Build version 8C38

[ZebGirouard]

I also have this issue...hope this helps?

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