{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/issues/6532","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/issues/6532/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/issues/6532/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/issues/6532/events","html_url":"https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/6532","id":142047503,"number":6532,"title":"Feature Request: Running multiple instances of the same Meteor app in development?","user":{"login":"Goatic","id":6593354,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6593354?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic","html_url":"https://github.com/Goatic","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/labels/feature","name":"feature","color":"02d7e1"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/labels/pull-requests-encouraged","name":"pull-requests-encouraged","color":"e102d8"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":8,"created_at":"2016-03-19T09:53:47Z","updated_at":"2016-03-31T01:37:54Z","closed_at":null,"body":"**Problem**\r\nI'm building a couple of 3rd party packages that relies on mutiple instances of the same application running against the same database. I'm currently unable to run multiple instances of the same source, unless I copy the entire source and run my second instance from it. I think there's a number of scenarios where it would be valuable to easily run the same app on different ports.\r\n\r\nFrom my perspective, this would be pretty cool:\r\n```\r\nD:\\> cd documents\\projects\\someMeteorProject\r\nD:\\documents\\projects\\someMeteorProject> meteor --port 3000\r\nD:\\documents\\projects\\someMeteorProject> meteor --port 4000\r\n```\r\nIf I try this right now, my second instance gets the following output:\r\n```\r\n[[[[[ ~\\D:\\documents\\projects\\someMeteorProject ]]]]]\r\n\r\n=> Started proxy.\r\n\r\n<runJavaScript-77>:168\r\n      throw error;\r\n            ^\r\nError: EBUSY, rmdir 'D:\\documents\\projects\\someMeteorProject\\.meteor\\local\\build\\programs\\server'\r\nPS D:\\documents\\projects\\someMeteorProject>\r\n```\r\nI imagine this is because it's trying to rebuild on top of the code that has already been built and is executing?..."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/issues/comments/203710173","html_url":"https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/6532#issuecomment-203710173","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/issues/6532","id":203710173,"user":{"login":"Goatic","id":6593354,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6593354?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic","html_url":"https://github.com/Goatic","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Goatic/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-31T01:37:53Z","updated_at":"2016-03-31T01:37:53Z","body":"no problem... If I actually manage to submit the request correctly, lol. Thanks for the guidance :+1: "}}