Retrieving port number in Play Framework 2 app

Question

The question is: how do I retrieve the port number that play is listening on, no matter how it was defined (configuration, command line argument, or not at all).

Thi

Answer 1

Running in dev mode you need to use doubled notation

play -Dhttp.port=80 "run 80"

Unfortunately you have to do the same for default port

play -Dhttp.port=9000 "run 9000"

So I just suggest to write shell script (or .bat in Windows) for easy starting with all required params.