Volto Ports / Development inside docker

[pigeonflight (David Bain (Will Theme Plone Sites))]

This thread is about running on a container (Cloud9 IDE)

Tip: Running Volto on AWS Cloud9 you'll need to set a few env variables such as PORT

This is about setting the default ports for Volto. It addresses a specific problem related to Volto and Cloud9 IDE. Problem: Volto launches on port 8080 by default on Cloud9 IDE I often use Cloud9, The AWS IDE. In case there are others who use Cloud9 this is a "pro tip". I've noticed that when I launch Volto on Cloud9 it attempts to listen on port 8080 and not 3000. This conflicts with the default port for the Plone API. The message that comes up looks like this: ? Something is already runni…