How to change default webinterface port

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How to change default webinterface port

Postby blader » 15 Jun 2010 11:31

I installed VLC and trying to get the default port changed to for example 9090

For now I'm only be able to open web interface on localhost:8080 nothing else.

I looked in config but only found an option to make http default which is not an option.

Using ntservice with extra interface http added and extra parameter http-port= but that didn't worked as well.

Isn't there a simpler way to get this port changed ?

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Re: How to change default webinterface port

Postby VLC_help » 15 Jun 2010 15:47

Tools -> Preferences... (Show settings: All) Interface -> Main interface -> HTTP and put the port to Host address field (so :9090). Save and restart.

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Re: How to change default webinterface port

Postby blader » 15 Jun 2010 19:11

But when i do that i'll lose the default interface. I would like to use both of them. Going to try it again .

-update
After trying it over and over again, flushing settings to default it suddenly works. Thanks for helping.

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Re: How to change default webinterface port

Postby mvukomanovic » 07 May 2020 11:50

That option doesn't seem to be available in the latest versions.
So you need to change the vlcrc file %APPDATA%\vlc\vlcrc Search for the setting http-port=

There are three settings that contain http-port but only the one which is only http-port is the correct one to modify.
If the line starts with # you will need to remove the # from the beginning of the line

So to set the port to 9090 then you would have the line as
http-port=9090

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Re: How to change default webinterface port

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 15 May 2020 21:33

Input/Codecs > Network settings > HTTP host port (because historically network settings were there).
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