How to force Typesafe Activator to listen 0.0.0.0:8888

Question

I recently installed Typesafe Activator to a VM. Applications created by activator can be accessed after port forwarding, but Activator seems to listen localhost. How to change

Answer 1

It is hardcoded right now and there's no way to change short of recompiling from source. https://github.com/typesafehub/activator/blob/master/ui/app/activator/UIMain.scala#L99

Maybe we could prefix this with if (System.getProperty("http.address") == null) File an issue on github?

Update: this is now fixed so that -Dhttp.address works (and above source link no longer goes to the right place)