diff --git a/onionr.sh b/onionr.sh
index ea925a52..0b7d898c 100755
--- a/onionr.sh
+++ b/onionr.sh
@@ -2,22 +2,5 @@
 ORIG_ONIONR_RUN_DIR=`pwd`
 export ORIG_ONIONR_RUN_DIR
 cd "$(dirname "$0")"
-
-[[ -n "$USE_TOR" ]] || USE_TOR=1
-[[ -n "$PORT" ]] || PORT=8080
-[[ -n "$KEEP_LOG" ]] || KEEP_LOG=0
-[[ -n "$STORE_PLAINTEXT" ]] || STORE_PLAINTEXT=1
-
-PRIVKEY_OPT=""
-[[ -f "privkey.key" ]] && PRIVKEY_OPT="--private-key privkey.key"
-
-python run-onionr-node.py \
-	--open-ui 0 \
-	--onboarding 0 \
-	--bind-address 0.0.0.0 \
-	--port $PORT \
-	--use-tor $USE_TOR \
-	--keep-log-on-exit $KEEP_LOG \
-	--store-plaintext $STORE_PLAINTEXT \
-	$PRIVKEY_OPT \
-	"$@"
+cd src
+./__init__.py "$@"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/run-onionr-node.py b/run-onionr-node.py
index 2c8f3431..15fd581e 100755
--- a/run-onionr-node.py
+++ b/run-onionr-node.py
@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ def show_info(p: Process):
 
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--bind-address", help="Address to bind to. Be very careful with non-loopback",
+    type=str, default="")
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--port", help="Port to bind to, must be available and possible",
+    type=int, default=0)
 parser.add_argument(
     "--use-bootstrap-file", help="Use bootstrap node list file",
     type=int, default=1)
@@ -129,6 +135,13 @@ config['general']['dev_mode'] = False
 config['general']['store_plaintext_blocks'] = True
 config['general']['use_bootstrap_list'] = True
 config['transports']['tor'] = True
+config['general']['bind_port'] = 0  # client api server port
+config['general']['bind_address'] = ''  # client api server address
+
+if args.bind_address:
+    config['general']['bind_address'] = args.bind_address
+if args.port:
+    config['client']['client']['port'] = args.port
 
 if not args.use_bootstrap_file:
     config['general']['use_bootstrap_list'] = False
diff --git a/src/apiservers/private/__init__.py b/src/apiservers/private/__init__.py
index 3bc0df3a..657c30b7 100644
--- a/src/apiservers/private/__init__.py
+++ b/src/apiservers/private/__init__.py
@@ -50,13 +50,20 @@ class PrivateAPI:
 
         self.startTime = epoch.get_epoch()
         app = flask.Flask(__name__)
+        
+
         bind_port = int(config.get('client.client.port', 59496))
         self.bindPort = bind_port
 
         self.clientToken = config.get('client.webpassword')
 
-        self.host = httpapi.apiutils.setbindip.set_bind_IP(
-            private_API_host_file)
+        if config.get('general.bind_address'):
+            with open(private_API_host_file, 'w') as bindFile:
+                bindFile.write(config.get('general.bind_address'))
+            self.host = config.get('general.bind_address')
+        else:
+            self.host = httpapi.apiutils.setbindip.set_bind_IP(
+                private_API_host_file)
         logger.info('Running api on %s:%s' % (self.host, self.bindPort))
         self.httpServer = ''
 
diff --git a/static-data/default_config.json b/static-data/default_config.json
index 2a788eb3..dcad2e50 100755
--- a/static-data/default_config.json
+++ b/static-data/default_config.json
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
     "general": {
         "allow_public_api_dns_rebinding": false,
         "announce_node": true,
+        "bind_address": "",
         "dev_mode": false,
         "display_header": true,
         "ephemeral_tunnels": false,
diff --git a/tests/test_default_config_json.py b/tests/test_default_config_json.py
index b50db4b2..2678b13c 100644
--- a/tests/test_default_config_json.py
+++ b/tests/test_default_config_json.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ class OnionrConfig(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(conf['allocations']['disk'], 1073741824)
             self.assertEqual(conf['allocations']['disk'], 1073741824)
             self.assertEqual(conf['general']['announce_node'], True)
+            self.assertEqual(conf['general']['bind_address'], '')
             self.assertEqual(conf['general']['dev_mode'], False)
             self.assertEqual(conf['general']['display_header'], True)
             self.assertEqual(conf['general']['ephemeral_tunnels'], False)