Mac: Fix server port to validate bookmarks throughout sessions

[belbernard]

Currently the server starts with a port that seems to be randomly assigned, for instance "54441" here:
http://127.0.0.1:54441/php/index.php

In settings.json we have this instruction:
"web_server": {
"listen_on": ["127.0.0.1", 0],
etc.

Unexpectedly, replacing "0" with a port number (e.g. "8081") does not set the port at the desired value. (Even clearing the cache and debug.log did not solve the problem.)

It seems that PHP Desktop is setting the port at a value overriding the one given in settings.json.

Having a fixed port number wiil make it possible to keep valid bookmarks throughout sessions of running PHP Desktop.

[oleteacher]

Working fine for me. Had a student with issue and they were trying to use a port already in use. May or may not be your case, but changing ports works great on my end.

https://www.speedguide.net/port.php?port=54441

[belbernard]

You are showing the trace, not the final URL displayed on the Chromium browser.

After setting the port to "54441":
"listen_on": ["127.0.0.1", 54441],

I got the following trace, and the port displayed on the browser was 49618, i.e. a random value shown in the trace:

...
[1121/192651.541793:INFO:settings.cpp(19)] Fetching settings from file: /Volumes/EXT/Dropbox/WORK/BOL PROCESSOR/BP3/PHP_DESKTOP/PHP Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/settings.json
[1121/192651.545214:INFO:mongoose_server.cpp(55)] Start Mongoose server
[1121/192651.545232:INFO:mongoose_server.cpp(79)] listening_ports=127.0.0.1:0
[1121/192651.545280:INFO:mongoose_server.cpp(84)] www_directory=/Volumes/EXT/Dropbox/WORK/BOL PROCESSOR/BP3/PHP_DESKTOP/PHP Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/www
[1121/192651.545286:INFO:mongoose_server.cpp(102)] index_files=index.html,index.php
[1121/192651.545309:INFO:mongoose_server.cpp(107)] cgi_interpreter=/Volumes/EXT/Dropbox/WORK/BOL PROCESSOR/BP3/PHP_DESKTOP/PHP Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/php-cgi
[1121/192651.545314:INFO:mongoose_server.cpp(125)] cgi_pattern=**.php$
[1121/192651.545319:INFO:mongoose_server.cpp(174)] hide_files_patterns=
[1121/192651.545324:INFO:mongoose_server.cpp(191)] cgi_environment=TMP=/tmp,TEMP=/tmp,TMPDIR=/tmp,SERVER_NAME=127.0.0.1,SERVER_ADDR=127.0.0.1,PHPDESKTOP_VERSION=130.0
[1121/192651.545809:INFO:mongoose_server.cpp(228)] Mongoose url: http://127.0.0.1:49618/
[1121/192651.545863:INFO:main.mm(241)] remote_debugging_port = 60732
[1121/192651.545871:INFO:main.mm(251)] Initialize CEF
etc.

The difference may be that you are using the Windows version. I am running the MacOS one.

[cztomczak]

On Windows setting fixed port works OK.
Bernard reports that it doesn't work on Mac.

[oleteacher]

My bad. Totally missed the MAC. Try to do better next time :)