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

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