How to start jenkins on different port rather than 8080 using command prompt in Windows?

I have jenkins.war and I started it from command prompt in Windows as:

java -jar jenkins.war

It was started well and easily browsed as http://localhost:8080

I want to start on 9090 port. How can I do that?

Use the following command at command prompt:

java -jar jenkins.war --httpPort=9090

If you want to use https use the following command:

java -jar jenkins.war --httpsPort=9090

Details are here

Open the jenkins.xml in the jenkins home folder (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins) and change the port number:
httpPort=xxxx
to
httpPort=yyyy
then restart the service. it should change the setting permanently.

With Ubuntu 14.4 I had to change the file /etc/default/jenkins

E.g.

   #HTTP_PORT=8080
   HTTP_PORT=8083

and restart the service

> service jenkins restart

In CentOS/RedHat (assuming you installed the jenkins package)

vim /etc/sysconfig/jenkins

....
# Port Jenkins is listening on.
# Set to -1 to disable
#
JENKINS_PORT="8080"

change it to any port you want.

On Windows (with Windows Service).

Edit the file C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jenkins.xml with 8083 if you want 8083 port.

<arguments>-Xrs -Xmx256m -Dhudson.lifecycle=hudson.lifecycle.WindowsServiceLifecycle -jar "%BASE%\jenkins.war" --httpPort=8083</arguments>

For the benefit of Linux users who find themselves here: I found /etc/sysconfig/jenkins has a JENKINS_PORT="8080", which you should probably change too.

In *nix In CentOS/RedHat

vim /etc/sysconfig/jenkins

# Port Jenkins is listening on.
# Set to -1 to disable
#
JENKINS_PORT="8080"

In windows open XML file C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jenkins.xml

<executable>%BASE%\jre\bin\java</executable>
  <arguments>-Xrs -Xmx256m -Dhudson.lifecycle=hudson.lifecycle.WindowsServiceLifecycle -jar "%BASE%\jenkins.war" --**httpPort=8083**</arguments>
 i made  above bold  to show you change then 
 <executable>%BASE%\jre\bin\java</executable>
  <arguments>-Xrs -Xmx256m -Dhudson.lifecycle=hudson.lifecycle.WindowsServiceLifecycle -jar "%BASE%\jenkins.war" --httpPort=8083</arguments>

now you have to restart it doesnot work unless you restart http://localhost:8080/restart then after restart http://localhost:8083/ all should be well so looks like the all above response which says it does not work We have restart.

For Fedora, RedHat, CentOS and alike, any customization should be done within /etc/sysconfig/jenkins instead of /etc/init.d/jenkins. The purpose of the first file is exactly the customization of the second file.

So, within /etc/sysconfig/jenkins, there is a the JENKINS_PORT variable that holds the port number on which Jenkins is running.

Correct, use --httpPort parameter. If you also want to specify the $JENKINS_HOME, you can do like this:

java -DJENKINS_HOME=/Users/Heros/jenkins -jar jenkins.war  --httpPort=8484

To change the default port of 8080. All you need to do:

1. Goto Jenkins folder present in C:\Program Files (x86)
2. Open a notepad or text pad and run them as administrator and then try opening the jenkins.xml file present in the jenkins folder.
3. Change the port number as below: <arguments>-Xrs -Xmx256m -Dhudson.lifecycle=hudson.lifecycle.WindowsServiceLifecycle -jar "%BASE%\jenkins.war" --httpPort=9090</arguments>
4. Click Save.

If you have configured jenkins on ec2 instance with linux AMI and looking to change the port. Edit the file at

sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/jenkins

Edit

JENKINS_PORT="your port number"

Exit vim

:wq

Restart jenkins

sudo service jenkins restart

Or simply start it, if its not already running

sudo service jenkins start

To verify if your jenkins is running on mentioned port

netstat -lntu | grep "your port number"

You can call

java -jar jenkins.war --help

to see a list of all available parameters.

Add the following two lines after DAEMON_ARGS in the file /etc/init.d/jenkins

HTTP_PORT=8010
JENKINS_ARGS="--httpPort=$HTTP_PORT"

On OSX edit file:

/usr/local/Cellar/jenkins-lts/2.46.1/homebrew.mxcl.jenkins-lts.plist

and edit port to you needs.

Open Command Prompt as Administrator in Windows . Go to the directory where Jenkins is installed. and stop the Jenkins service first, using jenkins.exe stop

type the command to change the port using, java -jar jenkins.war --httpPort=9090 (enter the port number you want to use).

and at-last, restart the Jenkins services, using jenkins.exe restart

On Debian 11 it ignores /etc/default/jenkins file. Instead you open /usr/lib/systemd/system/jenkins.service file and replace http-port there in the string:

Environment="JENKINS_PORT=8080"

Change the '/etc/init.d/jenkins' shell

check_tcp_port "http" "$HTTP_PORT" "8080" || return 1

Change 8080 to whichever you want