This entry is going to be short. No more "override jettyPort" I wrote an article about Lift + sbt 0.10 (+ xsbt-web-plugin) about two months ago. I got a project working, but couldn't figure out some issues. One of them was changing the listening port of Jetty, which defaults to 8080. It was easy for sbt 0.7. You just need to override jettyPort in your project class. There's an entry on the old sbt