In the cmd , after receiving my Ipv4 address using ipconfig , I have added it to the ALLOWED_HOSTS in the settings.py file .
Then to run the website , in cmd I ran the following command :
python manage.py runserver 192.168.x.x:8000 where 192.168.x.x is my ipaddress .
I am able to to access my website from my own local machine , however on other local machines : 192.168.x.x:8000/ isn't responding.
I fear, there is rather a fundamental misunderstanding of a local webserver. The webserver created when you run python manage.py runserver is just a programme running on your computer. You can make requests against that server in your browser using the address manage.py gives you, but that does not mean that the web server was on the internet.
What you expect is like having a Python script hello_world.py on your machine and expecting that someone else could just run python hello_world.py on their machine and it would invoke the script on your machine.
If you want to publish your website, you need to host it on a website.
Aemie,
Try hosting the django server on 0.0.0.0:8000 and attempt to access it from the different machine via the address 192.168.x.x:8000 (the ip address of the host machine IP).
0.0.0.0 would allow all IPv4 addresses on the local machine to be accessible
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I'm starting the tango-with-django tutorial.
And I'm trying to access the created website using other computer. Both computers are using Windows OS. And this is not working.
$ python manage.py runserver <your_machines_ip_address>:5555
I'm using the IPv4 Adress that I get when I type:
$ ipconfig
What am I doing wrong or what is missing?
Download ngrok from here: https://ngrok.com/ (this will allow you to serve your web app to anyone on the Internet)
Start your Django project normally or provide any port number.
python manage.py runserver
If you are running windows, open a command prompt and browse to the location where the ngrok binary is located.
If you are running GNU/Linux / OSX, just open a terminal.
Then run the following command.
ngrok 8000
Replace 8000 by whichever port the Django project is running on.
ngrok will give you a public hostname like http://abc.ngrok.com
Anyone you give this address to will be able to view / interact with your Django application anywhere on the Internet.
Update: Newer versions of ngrok need to be run like this: ngrok http 8000
Try python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:5555. And access it on the other machine using http://<your-ip-address>:5555. That should work
I am able to run my django dev server on my machine and make it accessible to the local network by running:
sudo python manage.py runserver IP:80
OR
sudo python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
Now, how can I make my server accessible over the internet by a machine not in my local wifi network?
Use your machine LAN/WAN ip address, then configure your modem/router to let this ip have external access.
For example, considering your machine LAN/WAN ip address is 192.168.0.100.
You run your django development server as python manage.py runserver 192.168.0.100:8000.
An then, set up your modem/router.. Probably inside your DMZ settings.
You can use a tool like ngrok.
Here you can find a detailed usage description: http://www.lexev.org/en/2014/remote-url-localhost-server/
I used django and developed a site which is working fine, and its about to move to production and ready for deployment in a couple of weeks.
So before moving to production, i want to share the site with some of my employees to check the functionality and something else. Actually their systems are connected in LAN with mine.
So my system IP address is something like 192.168.12.135, when we run run django development server its runs at localhost:8000, i mean with the system IP address and with a port 8000 like 192.168.12.135:8000 right.
So i had shared them the project site link as 192.168.12.135:8000, but when they tried on the systems which are connected in LAN, it is not accessible and displaying an error Server not found.
I tried the above same way because recently i used python web.py framework and developed a minimal site , and when we run the server, it by default runs as localhost:8080 , and when i accessed this link from others system that are connected in LAN with mine as 192.168.12.135:8000 , its working fine and is accessible.
So can anyone please let me know
1. How to access the site on the systems that are connected in LAN before moving to production(in some real servers like apache, nginx etc.,).
2. Basically i am new to web developing and this is my first site developed in python, so
i don't know more about servers and deploying a project. So can anyone please let me know
the detailed information about deploying django on different servers
(First of all i am looking for a solution for 1st problem(Accessing in LAN before moving to
production))
If you run
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
your development server will be available on port 8000 to anyone on your LAN and on localhost as well (and it does not depend on your ip address)
You need to explicitly tell the development server to run on your IP rather than localhost.
Try python manage.py runserver your_ip:port.
Though it'll be accessible if you're running through apache or any other webservers other than the development server.
And to your 1st question, I would advice you to host and use a local apache server rather than using development server. Doing so, you can foresee the issues you'll be facing when moving to production.
And to 2nd, there are plenty of resources available configuring Django with different servers. Hail Google. :)
In your settings.py change ALLOWED_HOSTS to
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
Run your server by entering the following command
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
In order to access the project from another device enter the IP address of the server followed by the port number, which is 8000 in this example.
On windows I did everything you said but one thing was missing at my end to connect through Wi-Fi..
In settings.py:
ALLOWED_HOST = ['*']
Put Network profil in Private mode:
Windows > Settings > Network & Internet > Wi-Fi > (Click on_your_network) > In Network profil select: Private
Exemple: Run your server on the port 8000:
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
Then to access to the server with your other devices connected to the same network, enter the IPv4's server address with the your port (here 8000)
Exemple, if the IPv4's server address is 192.168.20.26 put the folling text directly in your browser:
192.168.20.26:8000
I'm learning django to make a test website, I can run the site on my own laptop, and use the browser to visit 127.0.0.1 , it's ok
but when I do the same thing on my server, I bought a vps and a domain, I just can't telnet the port , the browser also can't connect, I don't know why
I do the following
python manage.py runserver 8080
on my laptop, 8080 port can be connected by telnet, but on my server , it can't
Two things.
Firstly, as the documentation explains, by default runserver only binds to the localhost interface, which means it is only available on a browser running on the same machine. To get it to be visible outside the local machine, you need to bind to an externally-visible address, or 0.0.0.0 for all addresses:
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080
Secondly, as the documentation also explains, you should not be trying to use the development server in a production setting anyway. Use a proper webserver, eg Apache + mod_wsgi.
I can't access externally to python development server, I have a very small django project running on my machine, and now I want to enable computers in the same LAN have access to it, but it can't do.
There is no firewall running on my machine. Is there a way around this?
How are you running the server?
Have you tried something like this?
manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080
From the documentation:
Note that the default IP address, 127.0.0.1, is not accessible from other machines on your network. To make your development server viewable to other machines on the network, use its own IP address (e.g. 192.168.2.1) or 0.0.0.0.
0.0.0.0 means: bind to all IP addresses this computer supports. So, as TheSingularity says, you'll then be able to access your Django app by entering the private IP address usually beginning with 192.168.*; which is not accessible from the Internet.
run your django app like this:
./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8800
you can access now your project from other machine like this:
http://<ip_address_machine_where_project>:8800