How to connect to machine ip address & port via grails app

Question

I'm running MacOS 10.6 with the default settings for my machine with Internet Sharing turned on.

What needs to be configured to allow access to my machine's grails/jetty instance on a specific port?

I can do 'http://localhost/' as well as 'http://192.x.x.x/' but if I were to set my grails app to run on a specific port, I can't access it with: 'http://192.x.x.x:8081/'.

The browser can't establish a connection with this address from my own machine and I know that I need to establish an accessible port in some config file.

I used to be able to do this prior to an upgrade from the last version of the OS but it's been so long I don't remember what I did the last time.

NOTE: I can use 'grails run-app -Dserver.port=' to specify a port number for jetty to run my grails application but that still doesn't allow my machine to be accessible by ip address & port number.

Answer 1

grails run-app -Dserver.port=<port number>

run-app Runs a grails app using the default Jetty container. The default http port is 8080. This can be customised by appending -Dserver.port= to the command line

See the grails website for more details.