Where is the config data for http host and port?

[zimon]

I was going to try http remote access to VLC.
I configured HTTP-access via VLC's graphical preferences window.

Now VLC cannot start and I cannot find where the host and the port is configured so I could delete them or change them.

$ vlc
VLC media player 1.1.11 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x160f200] main interface: creating httpd
[0x160f200] main interface error: socket bind error (Permission denied)
[0x160f200] main interface error: cannot create socket(s) for HTTP host
[0x160f200] oldhttp interface error: cannot listen on 192.168.3.15:8080
[0x160f200] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x15f0b70] main interface: creating httpd
[0x15f0b70] main interface error: socket bind error (Permission denied)
[0x15f0b70] main interface error: cannot create socket(s) for HTTP host
[0x15f0b70] oldhttp interface error: cannot listen on 192.168.3.15:8080
[0x15f0b70] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x14f5120] main libvlc error: interface "default" initialization failed

The host:port info is not anywhere in ~/.config/vlc or ~/.local/share/vlc
Cannot guess to where else I should look.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Port 8080 is the default. The hostname should be in vlcrc already.

[zimon]

Ok, found it.
How to change the port number?
8080 is reserved for webproxy in this machine.
$ grep 8080 /etc/services
webcache 8080/tcp http-alt # WWW caching service

Or how to disable whole http server? There should be a way to start vlc with factory default settings somehow.
(Maybe I just have to delete vlcrc file)
Now I should just kill webcache so VLC could start and I could change the configuration.

[zimon]

solved.

I had to change "intf=oldhttp" to "intf=" in the vlcrc so vlc could be started again and GUI preferences can be accessed.
For many users vlc would stay "broken". Maybe vlc should say to stdout one has to fix or delete vlcrc to start with default settings.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

It's kind of obvious you need to erase the configuration to reset the default settings. They wouldn't be called settings if they did not survive restarting the player.

[zimon]

Well, I think it is a usability bug, which will make some people skip vlc as a working solution when this happens and vlc cannot be started. I don't know if same thing happens also in Windows if port 8080 is reserved for something else and user tries to enable vlc-remote and this leads to unworking, unstarting VLC.

And port 8080 is a bad choice for a default port of vlc-remote, because it is practically reserved port for webcache.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

8080 is the registered "alternate HTTP port". That's actually the only sane default for non-privileged HTTP servers.

It's quite normal for VLC not to start if the interface failed. I don't see how you can avoid that.