From 883313cca6be0b948ced8e6228aa76a11f38f772 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Bowen Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:15:30 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] docs: fix binary install port example --- docs/getting-started/installation.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/getting-started/installation.md b/docs/getting-started/installation.md index 8c078bfa8..81533a3bf 100644 --- a/docs/getting-started/installation.md +++ b/docs/getting-started/installation.md @@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ Follow the [Install Steps](#install-steps) to complete the installation. **After You can specify the port on which to start the installation by specifying the environment variable `INSTALL_PORT`, default is 80. +`INSTALL_PORT` only sets the port for the installer. Once installed, Answer listens on the address set by `server.http.addr` in `answer-data/conf/config.yaml`, which defaults to `0.0.0.0:80`, whatever port you used for the installer. To run Answer on a different port, change this value before running `./answer run`. + +On Linux, ports below 1024 require root. If you are running Answer as a regular user, for example to try it out, use a higher port such as `9080` for both the installer and `server.http.addr`. + We use `-C` flag to indicate the directory where saved answer data. :::