Config variable API_SERVER_PORT seems ignored

[jucor]

When setting up a local polis deployment, any modification to the API_SERVER_PORT in .env seems ignored: the server still tries to bind to port 5000.

I observed this when running on a mac machine where port 5000 is already occupied by Airplay Receiver: setting API_SERVER_PORT to 52000 didn't work, the server still kept complaining that port 5000 was already used and it couldn't bind to it. In the end I gave up and stopped Airplay Receiver, which allowed me to free up port 5000 and get going with my main task, but documenting it here as we might eventually want to fix that.

I tried a few things to no avail, including:

• Modifying the server service in docker-compose.dev.yml by adding:

environment:
- API_SERVER_PORT

• replacing

  polis/server/Dockerfile

  Line 34 in 2542ce1

  EXPOSE 5000

  by EXPOSE ${API_SERVER_PORT}

[jucor]

Citing @colinmegill today: yup, that's expected at the moment, with the port number being peppered in a few different places in the code. There are plans to fix that, but towards end of 2025.