Changing the Port Used by the PoolParty Server

Prerequisites for Changing the Port of PoolParty Server

A default installation of PoolParty following the respective Installation Guide .Installation Guide
No other service running on port 80.

To change the PoolParty default port to another than port 80, follow these steps:

On Linux, open a shell and change to root:

sudo -i

Stop PoolParty:

<PPAppDir>/bin/poolparty stop

On Windows, use the Apache Tomcat service application to stop PoolParty. For more, see: Control PoolParty Using Tomcat Service Application (Windows)

Change the port-property in the Connector element of server.xml to reflect your desired port:

Example Port Configuration 8081 of server.xml

...
 <Connector port="8081" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
            connectionTimeout="20000"
            redirectPort="8443" />
...

You will find the file in these paths respectively:

You need to configure your packet filter/firewall (if any) in a way that allows the host to accept incoming connections on the port of your choice.

Otherwise, PoolParty may not be reachable over the network.

Adapt the URL for Solr connection in poolparty.properties with new port:

Example Port Configuration 8081 of poolparty.properties

...
ppt.url=http://localhost:8081/PoolParty/
...

You will find the file in these paths respectively:

On Linux open a console and change to root:

sudo -i

Start PoolParty:

<PPAppDir>/bin/poolparty start

On Windows, use the Apache Tomcat service application to start PoolParty.

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