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How to Django remote access to server using Windows

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

django run localhost from another computer connected to another network

I am running my django project in localhost and it works fine..
For test purpose I want to run my localhost from another computer connected in the same network.
I have done python manage.py runserver 'my ip address'
That works fine too.. Is there any way that I can access my localhost from another computer connected to another network?
Like I am connected to A network and running my localhost and my friend is connected to B network. Suppose he wants to access my localhost and see my project running then is it possible to access localhost of a computer from another computer connected to another project?

You can. Just run the django runserver in
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
Now you can access your app using youripaddress:8000
From Django ...
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 or :: (with IPv6 enabled).
You can provide an IPv6 address surrounded by brackets (e.g. [200a::1]:8000). This will automatically enable IPv6 support.
Updated:
In order to match the answer to Title of the question. You need configure your router to forward port 80 to yourapp address

Run server with local host or your system IP like one of the below
python manage.py runserver 192.168.6.7:8000
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
python manage.py runserver 127.0.0.1:8000
add hosts in settings.py to access from other system in network.
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1', 'localhost','192.168.6.7']

If you're working DEBUG=True mod in your Django project, you shouldn't need anything other than that (I assume you are not using port 80, it requires root access).
You must use 0.0.0.0 as host IP, it is a simple solution. And the command is:
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000. That's it.

How do I access my django app running on Amazon ec2?

So, I have looked around stack overflow + other sites, but havent been able to solve this problem: hence posting this question!
I have recently started learning django... and am now trying to run it on ec2.
I have an ec2 instance of this format: ec2-xx-xxx-xx-xxx.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com on which I have a django app running. I changed the security group of this instance to allow http port 80 connections.
I did try to run it the django app the following ways: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 and python manage.py runserver ec2-xx-xxx-xx-xxx.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8000 and that doesnt seem to be helping either!
To make sure that there is nothing faulty from django's side, I opened another terminal window and ssh'ed into the instance and did a curl GET request to localhost:8000/admin which went through successfully.
Where am I going wrong? Will appreciate any help!

You are running the app on port 8000, when that port isn't open on the instance (you only opened port 80).
So either close port 80 and open port 8000 from the security group, or run your app on port 80.
Running any application on a port that is less than 1024 requires root privileges; so if you try to do python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80 as a normal user, you'll get an error.
Instead of doing sudo python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80, you have a few options:
Run a pre-configured AMI image for django (like this one from bitnami).
Configure a front end server to listen on port 80, and then proxy requests to your django application. The common stack here is nginx + gunicorn + supervisor, and this blog post explains how to set that up (along with a virtual environment which is always a good habit to get into).

Make sure to include your IPv4 Public IP address in the ALLOWED_HOSTS section in Django project/app/settings.py script...

Serve Django project on local WiFi Network

I used
python manage runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
to start the server so that I can access the project from other computers on my wifi network, but when i browse to internet-ipaddress:8000 on an another computer, the project doesn't load. Am I missing a setting?

Assuming all the machines can see eachother ...
get the IP address of the machine you are running runserver on. For example run ifconfig at the console.
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 10:1e:72:b8:2a:4b
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
...
check if you are running a firewall. For example
sudo ufw status
if active, you need to open port 8000 so, again at the console, run
sudo ufw allow 8000/tcp
then start the runserver (or runserver_plus if using django-extensions)
python manage.py runserver_plus 192.168.1.2:8000
open a browser on another machine
http://192.168.1.2:8000/admin

What do you mean by internet-ipaddress? That sounds like you're using the external IP of your router. You should be using the IP of the particular machine you're serving from, which will be an internal address like 192.168.0.2.

You should bind it to your local IP address. For example
python manage.py runserver 192.168.1.100:8000

You should check out solutions like Pagekite or Show Off as they're generally trivially easy to set up and offer a great deal of flexibility (and mobility) and provide a stable domain name to your localhost server.

Note: 192.168.2.5 is my ip. So, give your own
Open settings.py and add this to ALLOWED_HOSTS
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['192.168.2.5']
Then run command
python manage.py runserver 192.168.2.5:8000
Allow access in the firewall's warning appeared.
Now access your host from the systems on same network.

add 192.168.0.8 (or whatever your router ip is) as a string to ALLOWED_HOSTS list in settings then run server using python manage.py runserver 192.168.0.8:8000

manage.py runserver

I am running python manage.py runserver from a machine A
when I am trying to check in machine B. The url I typed is http://A:8000/ .
I am getting an error like The system returned: (111) Connection refused

You can run it for machines in your network by
./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
And than you will be able to reach you server from any machine in your network.
Just type on other machine in browser http://192.168.0.1:8000 where 192.168.0.1 is IP of you server... and it ready to go....
or in you case:
On machine A in command line ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
Than try in machine B in browser type http://A:8000
Make a sip of beer.
Source from django docs

You need to tell manage.py the local ip address and the port to bind to. Something like python manage.py runserver 192.168.23.12:8000. Then use that same ip and port from the other machine. You can read more about it here in the documentation.

I was struggling with the same problem and found one solution. I guess it can help you. when you run python manage.py runserver, it will take 127.0.0.1 as default ip address and 8000. 127.0.0.0 is the same as localhost which can be accessed locally. to access it from cross origin you need to run it on your system ip or 0.0.0.0. 0.0.0.0 can be accessed from any origin in the network.
for port number, you need to set inbound and outbound policy of your system if you want to use your own port number not the default one.
To do this you need to run server with command python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:<your port> as mentioned above
or, set a default ip and port in your python environment. For this see my answer on
django change default runserver port
Enjoy coding .....

Just in case any Windows users are having trouble, I thought I'd add my own experience. When running python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000, I could view urls using localhost:8000, but not my ip address 192.168.1.3:8000.
I ended up disabling ipv6 on my wireless adapter, and running ipconfig /renew. After this everything worked as expected.

in flask using flask.ext.script, you can do it like this:
python manage.py runserver -h 127.0.0.1 -p 8000

For people who are using CentOS7, In order to allow access to port 8000, you need to modify firewall rules in a new SSH connection:
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=8000/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

I had the same problem and here was my way to solve it:
First, You must know your IP address.
On my Windows PC, in the cmd windows i run ipconfig and select my IP V4 address. In my case 192.168.0.13
Second as mention above: runserver 192.168.0.13:8000
It worked for me.
The error i did to get the message was the use of the gateway address not my PC address.

First, change your directory:
cd your_project name
Then run:
python manage.py runserver

Ok just came across this post this is a little off topic but hopefully explains a few things, The IP 127.0.0.1 points to your network card so any traffic that you cause to go to that IP address will not leave your computer.
For example modern network cards in laptops for example will not even give you that IP if you are not connected to a wifi or cabled network so you'll need to be connected at least to activate the card.
If you need to run multiple servers on the same machine but want to access them with a domain then you have a couple of options
edit your computers host file to define the domain and what IP it goes to
use a DNS Alias I set up using a cname record years ago *.local.irishado.com will point to 127.0.0.1
so for example these three domains will point to your local machine
http://site1.local.irishado.com
http://site2.local.irishado.com
http://site3.local.irishado.com
will all point to your local machine then in python projects you will need to edit the projects setting file ALLOWED_HOSTS property to hold the domain it will accept
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['site1.local.irishado.com']