How to run meteor server on a different ip address?

Question

How can i start meteor server on a different IP address? Currently in the examples am only able to run on a localhost:3000 address.

Answer 1

According to this change, you should be able to configure your app to bind to a specific IP address by configuring a BIND_IP environment variable.

export BIND_IP=127.0.0.1

You may need to update your app to a newer version of Meteor for this to work correctly.

Answer 2

export BIND_IP no longer works, bind IP is defined with --port (or -p or --app-port) option(s):

$ meteor run --port 127.0.0.1:3000

Reference: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/commit/9b8bd31a7b6c857e5d8fc0393982e6e6b2973eb0

Answer 3

This isn't possible yet, but there is an open pull request for it. They are waiting for the author to sign the meteor contributor agreement before it can be accepted.

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/469/

If you need it before it's official you can apply the patch yourself (or potentially just replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP address you want to bind to in the same files references by the patch (app/lib/mongo_runner.js and app/meteor/run.js).