I am just hoping to do some local testing on content structures with Kolibri (and brand new to it). I hoped to use one of my OSX laptops as a server, but for both of them, I never see content on the default 8080 port, each time I start the app, I get a random 5 digit port.
Because the primary target of the Mac OSX app is as an app rather than a server, this is why it does this behaviour. Your instinct to set it via the options.ini is very reasonable, but the OSX app actually bypasses this setting (this is something we can rectify in future releases).
For now, the best way to handle this would be to install kolibri via pip pip install kolibri and to run it from the command line to have more finegrained control. Alternatively, you can also use the pex file found on our downloads page.
Many thanks @richard for the quick response. I will give the python route a try. The OSX app does serve content fine, just it’s over a random port, and I am merely trying to try some different ways of packaging our learning content. Since I am the only user, the port number does not matter.
