Default port in use

[klmr]

The default port of grip – 5000 – is already in use on my OS X 10.9. When accessing http://localhost:5000, I get a text response, saying

ERROR: Another instance is running

(I get this whenever accessing the address, regardless of whether grip is running.)

It would be good if grip used a different default port, or had a configurable port. At the moment, settings are only read from settings.py and settings_local.py. Having them read from $HOME/.griprc (say) would help.

[klmr]

Worth noting: as far as I can tell, the port is taken up by Bonjour, a core service of the OS. So this isn’t just contention with another user application, it’s conflicting with the OS.

[joeyespo]

Oh, it actually does allow a different port. The syntax is simply

$ grip 8080

or

$ grip AUTHORS.md 8080

to run with a different file.

Thanks for your interest, @klmr!

[klmr]

Sure, but I’d like to make this configurable so that I can simply use grip and don’t have to specify the port every time.

[joeyespo]

Oh ok, gotcha. Apologies.

Re-opening this as an enhancement. The default port is currently Flask's default. I'm not sure it's worth changing that, but it's definitely worth having a .griprc or something.

This work will tie in nicely with #38, which also involves moving user-level files to the right place.

[joeyespo]

A configuration file is now available with the changes made for #38 and #61.

You can now change the default port by creating a ~/.grip/settings.py file and adding PORT = 8080 (or whatever port you want to use).

This has also been documented in 4f91f11.

Hope this helps!