[Live-demo] Re: ports?

[Dane Springmeyer]

On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Stefan Hansen wrote:

> Hey Dane!
>
> So far nothing else is using port 8000. And since you are the first,
> port 8000 should be all yours (or Mapnik's).
>

Okay, sure!

> Btw, I actually put your script in the svn... I hope you don't mind.
> Sorry, if that's a problem with you, I should have asked first.
>

That's great, thank you!

> Before I committed it, I commented out the part where it starts the
> server. Generally, in these cases a good option would be to create a
> desktop icon, that starts the server and maybe also starts FF with the
> demo page open. For example, the udig or openjump scripts put an  
> icon on
> the desktop, if you want to see an example.
>

Ah, interesting!

> cheers,
> stefan
>
>
> Dane Springmeyer wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Stefan Hansen wrote:
>>
>>> Generally Tomcat should already be up and running when you start  
>>> the vm.
>>> Open FF and try http://localhost:8080 (/manger/html to get to the  
>>> manger
>>> interface). The uname and pwd are user/user.
>>
>> Seeing the above reminds me that when I wrote the Mapnik/TileLite  
>> demo I
>> did not modify the default port it launches on, which is 8000. It  
>> should
>> likely be something less common since we may have lots of development
>> servers attaching to various ports?
>>
>> I don't have commit, so I'm happy if someone who does decides on  
>> whether
>> to alter the port.
>>
>> To alter to port when launching the Mapnik demo one would just pass a
>> flag like:
>>
>> liteserv.py mapnik.xml --port 9000
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dane
>
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