Disable/change "Built-in Preview Server"?

[n1drenhere]

Every time Aptana Studio starts up, the Preview Server grabs port 8000, and this is unacceptable to me.

How can I do any one of these things? (in increasing hammer size):
1. Change the port range of the preview server
2. Set the preview server not to auto-start
3. Disable the preview server
4. Disable Jaxer (will this kill the preview server?)
5. Delete the preview server in some way from disk

Thanks,
James

[k1awicki]

Hi,

Option 1-3 are not currently possible. If you stop the internal Jaxer it will not start up the next time Studio starts but that will not impact the preview server. You could change a file on disk that would remove the preview server but the next time you updated Studio those settings would be wiped out since that is how plugin updates work in Eclipse.

I agree it is an oversight that there isn't a way to disable and we could incorporate a preference inside Studio that would let you either change the port or disable it that would persist across updates and restarts.

Would you mind opening a request at http://support.aptana.com/issues ?

[n1drenhere]

http://support.aptana.com/asap/browse/JXR-174

In the meantime, could you specify what I need to change/delete on disk? I managed to disable the Internal Jaxer, but couldn't find the Preview Server...

[k1awicki]

There should be a plugin.xml file in the com.aptana.ide.server.jetty_VERSION folder in your plugins folder.

You want to remove the following:

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  <extension
         point="com.aptana.ide.server.serverProvider">
      <provider
            class="com.aptana.ide.server.jetty.server.PreviewServerProvider"
            icon="icons/html.png"
            id="com.aptana.ide.editor.html.previewProvider"
            name="HTML Preview Server Provider">
      </provider>
   </extension>

There may be multiple folder with that same name prefixed before the version, if so, pick the latest version.

[n1drenhere]

Thank you very much.

[n1drenhere]

This workaround has gotten harder.

As of com.aptana.ide.server.jetty_1.1.6.009905, there is a jar file in the plugins folder instead of a folder with a plugin.xml. You have to edit the plugin.xml within the jar.