# Starting Appium server programmatically on MAC

**URL:** <https://discuss.appium.io/t/starting-appium-server-programmatically-on-mac/1615>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 23, 2014, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/starting-appium-server-programmatically-on-mac/1615 "2014-11-23T11:31:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hassan\_Radi](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/hassan_radi/32/4077_2.png) [@Hassan\_Radi](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Hassan_Radi)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2014, 12:27pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/starting-appium-server-programmatically-on-mac/1615/3 "2014-11-23T12:27:00Z")

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It should be something like this:

> /bin/sh /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node\_modules/appium/bin/appium.js --address 127.0.0.1 --chromedriver-port 9516 --bootstrap-port 4725 --no-reset --local-timezone

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