update the doc for change default hostname or port (#3915)

* update for change default hostname or port Improve the description for how to change the default hostname, and fix the inaccuracy descrption for port change. * Update site/content/en/docs/faq.md Co-authored-by: Andrey Zhavoronkov <[email protected]> * Update site/content/en/docs/faq.md Co-authored-by: Andrey Zhavoronkov <[email protected]> * Fix linter issues * Fix linter issues Co-authored-by: Andrey Zhavoronkov <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Nikita Manovich <[email protected]>
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@@ -49,18 +49,26 @@ You should free up disk space or change the threshold, to do so check: [Elastics
 To change the hostname, simply set the `CVAT_HOST` environemnt variable
 
 ```
-export CVAT_HOST=<YOUR_HOSTNAME>
+export CVAT_HOST=<YOUR_HOSTNAME_OR_IP>
 ```
+NOTE, if you're using `docker-compose` with `sudo` to run CVAT, then please add the `-E` (or `--preserve-env`)
+flag to preserve the user environment variable which set above to take effect in your docker containers:
 
-If you want to change the port, change the `entryPoints.web.address` part of `traefik` image command in `docker-compose.yml`
+```
+sudo -E docker-compose up -d
+```
+
+If you want to change the default web application port, change the `ports` part of `traefik` service configuration
+in `docker-compose.yml`
 
 ```
 services:
   traefik:
-    command:
-      - "--providers.docker.exposedByDefault=false"
-      - "--providers.docker.network=test"
-      - "--entryPoints.web.address=:<YOUR_PORT>"
+    ...
+    ...
+    ports:
+      - <YOUR_WEB_PORTAL_PORT>:8080
+      - 8090:8090
 ```
 
 Note that changing the port does not make sense if you are using HTTPS - port 443 is conventionally