Troubles with http server on linux - python

I have such problem. I have local http server (BottlePy or Django), and when i use http:// localhost/ or http:// 127.0.0.1/ - it loads immediately. But when i use my local ip (192.168.1.100), it loads very long time (some minutes). What could be the problem?
Server works on Ubuntu 11.

you should take a look at
Slow Python HTTP server on localhost
similar issues has been resolved there.

It looks like that you have problems with DNS. can you check this idea running host 192.168.1.100 on the host? Please also check that other DNS queries being quickly processed.
Check /etc/hosts file for a quick-and-dirty solution.

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Host a Python based Websocket server

I am looking to host a basic Websocket server.
The code I want to see running is : FastFlicker
Do you know how and where I can host this application online?
PythonAnywhere dev here. Unfortunate we can't host websocket-based apps on our site right now. The toggle you spotted enables/disables websockets for our in-browser consoles, it's not related to running your own websocket server.
I've added an upvote for websockets to our own issue tracker, but for now you'll have to use a different service :-(
Your solution is OpenShift, even with the free plan you can host FastFlicker.
Click Add Application, choose the good cartridges (Python 2.7).
Then use your gitHub repo url to get the source.
Once the application is running, you need to SSH it to change the address and the port (see this Post).
To be able to ssh you need first to generate a ssh key and to add it in setting on the website
Ok, now kill all processes that uses your port. (lsof -i :8080)
Start your application and now it's working!
(It is in app-deployments/current/repo/ for me, then python FastFlicker.py &)
It is currently hosted here : ws://main-fastflicker.rhcloud.com:8000/
And to test it, you know you can use this generic client..

cherrypy and IIS 7

How can I deploy cherrypy along with IIS. I am not able to reach the machine from outside using the IP. If i run using localhost it works. If I give the ip address in the browser from a different machine then IIS7 comes up.
Thanks
Raman
It would help if you posted more information about your problem but this kinda sounds like a classic configuration issue. If you have CherryPy listening on localhost (127.0.0.1) then it will only answer on that address. You have to configure it to listen on the external IP address if you want it to answer there. Here is another question that covers how to do this.
It also sounds like you are trying to run CherryPy on a box that also has IIS7 running. If this is the case, and you wish to continue to run both, you will either need to configure CherryPy to use a different port than IIS7 or you will have to configure IIS7 to redirect requests to CherryPy. Here is a similar question about doing the latter with IIS6

Python server problems

I created a simple server and client using Python. When i run it on my computer i works fine. But if i run the server on my comupter and try to open client on the other computer, it cant find my server.
Thanks for helping.
Do you know the IP for your server computer? Just making sure you know that 127.0.0.1 (or localhost) no longer works in this setup.
Are your computers behind a NAT?
Can you ping from one computer to another?
Do you have a firewall?
For BaseHTTPServer http://docs.python.org/library/basehttpserver.html you will want to pass in the empty string '' as the server address.

URLError: urlopen error timed out

Whenever i try to make a HTTP request to some url through my django application which is running on top of apache mod_python (Machine: Ubuntu 10.04 server edition, 64-bits), it gives a timeout error.
The strange thing is that it works fine on Ubuntu 10.04 server edition, 32-bits.
I feel there could be some proxy connection issue. But i am not sure how to resolve it, if that is the case.
What could be the issue? Can anyone please throw some light on this.
Thanks in Advance.
Run simple network analysis first,
tracert
ping
wireshark (for network analysis)
Check your firewall and proxy settings on the server and make sure the correct ports, routes and permissions are fine.
Step 1:
Try it in the python shell first. Just take whatever you're trying to do with urlopen and do it in the python shell. You need to simplify your test.
Step 2:
If it still doesn't work maybe it's network... trying pinging the domain.
# ping domain.com
Could be a DNS issue, try looking the domain up:
# nslookup domain.com
or
# dig domain.com
If this works try pinging the IP directly.
# ping 000.000.000.000
Without more details this is all I know to try.

How to make Django's devserver public ? Is it generally possible?

I'm currently trying out the Django framework and I would share/present/show some stuff I've made to my workmate/friends. I work in Ubuntu under Win7 via VMware. So my wish/desire is to send my current pub-IP with port (e.g http://123.123.123.123:8181/django-app/) to my friends so they could test it.
the Problem is - I use django's Dev server (python /path-to-django-app/manage.py runserver $IP:$PORT).
How do I make the devserver public?
EDIT:
Oh, there's something I forgot to mention. As I sad I use VMware with Ubuntu. I have a shellscript that returns me my current int-IP 192.168.xx.xx and saves it in a environment-variable ($CUR_IP)
So, each time I want to run django's devserver I simply execute
python /path-to-django-site/manage.py runserver $CUR_IP:8080
At this way I become an http-adress (e.g.http://192.168.40.145:8080/app-name/) which I CAN USE OUTSIDE my virtual machine. I could test it on my host (win7) machine. That's actually the reason why I asked the question. I thought there's a way to use the ext-IP and make runserver usable outside too
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8181
This will run development server that should listen on all IP's on port 8181.
Note that as of Jun 17, 2011 Django development server is threaded by default (ticket #1609).
From docs:
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.
Assuming you have ruby installed, you just have to get localtunnel:
gem install localtunnel
then start your python development server with:
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
in another shell, start localtunnel:
localtunnel -k ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 8000
That will output an url to access your local server.
Port 8000 is now publicly accessible from http://xxxx.localtunnel.com
That's it.
192.168.*.* is a LAN-private address -- once you've done the proper VMWare (or other VM manager) and firewall incantations to make it accessible from the LAN, it still won't be accessible from outside the LAN, i.e., from the internet at large (a good thing too, because such development servers are not designed for security and scalability).
To make some port of a machine with a LAN-private IP visible to the internet at large, you need a router with a "virtual servers" ability (many routers, even cheap ones, offer it, but it's impossible to be specific about enabling it since each brand has its own idiosyncratic way). I would also recommend dyndns or other similar service to associate a stable DNS name to your always-varying public IP (unless you're splurging for a static IP from your connectivity provider, of course, but the latter option is becoming costlier all the time).
superuser.com or serverfault.com may provide better answers and details (once you give every single little detail of your configuration in a question) since the question has nothing much to do with software development and everything to do with server administration and configuration.
I had to add this line to settings.py in order to make it work (otherwise it shows an error when accessed from another computer)
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
then ran the server with:
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:9595
Also, make sure that your firewall allows communication to the chosen port (9595 in this case)
Already answered but adding npm alternate of same localtunnel
sudo npm install -g localtunnel
lt --port 8000 --subdomain yash
If you are using Virtualbox, You need to change the network setting in VB from "NAT" to "Bridged Adaptor". Then restart the linux. Now if you run sudo ifconfig you are able to see your IP address like 192.168.*.* . The last step is runserver
python manage.py runserver 192.168.*.*:8000
Cheers!
You need to configure bridged networking in VMWare and also grant access to the target port in Ubuntu firewall.
Alternatively, you can use cotunnel, Just run cotunnel in your ubuntu (in VMware) change your tunnel port in cotunnel dashboard which port you are using in local side. It gives public url and you can share the url with your friends.
Your Django server can listen to 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 (I prefer 0.0.0.0) it does not matter for cotunnel.
Might I suggest trying something like pyngrok to programmatically manage an ngrok tunnel for you? Full disclosure, I am the developer of it. Django example here, but it's as easy as installing pyngrok:
pip install pyngrok
and using it:
from pyngrok import ngrok
# <NgrokTunnel: "http://<public_sub>.ngrok.io" -> "http://localhost:8000">
http_url = ngrok.connect(8000)
No messing with ports or firewalls or IP addresses, and now you can also inspect the traffic (which is useful since what you're doing here is ongoing development, not running a prod-ready server).

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