How to access the local Django webserver from outside world

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I followed the instructions here to run Django using the built-in webserver and was able to successfully run it using python manage py runserver   If I access 127 0 0 1 port locally from the webserver  I get the Django page indicating it worked   I realize the Django webserver is not a production server  but it s important for me for testing purposes to be able to access it from the outside world -- i e  not from a web browser on the server  but from a different computer     I tried   http   mywebserver port django runs on   but it did not work   I also tried using the IP instead  based on ifconfig  to access   http   myipaddress port django runs on    which did not work either   The web server is running so it must be accessible from the outside  I m just not sure how   I am running Linux with Apache  though I have not configured Django with Apache   Any ideas on how to do this

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just do this   python manage py runserver 0 8000   by the above command you are actually binding it to the external IP address  so now when you access your IP address with the port number  you will be able to access it in the browser without any problem   just type in the following in the browser address bar    lt your ip address gt  8000   eg   192 168 1 130 8000   you may have to edit the settings py add the following in the settings py in the last line   ALLOWED HOSTS           hope this will help

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For AWS users   I had to use the following steps to get there   1  Ensure that pip and django are installed at the sudo level   sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install django   2  Ensure that security group in-bound rules includ http on port 80 for 0 0 0 0 0   configured through AWS console   3  Add Public IP and DNS to ALLOWED HOSTS   ALLOWED HOSTS is a list object that you can find in settings py ALLOWED HOSTS     75 254 65 19   ec2-54-528-27-21 compute-1 amazonaws com     4  Launch development server with sudo on port 80   sudo python manage py runserver 0 80   Site now available at either of the following  no need for  80 as that is default for http      Public DNS  i e  ec2-54-528-27-21 compute-1 amazonaws com  Public IP  i e 75 254 65 19

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install ngrok in terminal sudo apt-get install -y ngrok-client  after that run  ngrok http 8000 or  ngrok http example com 9000

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I m going to add this here     sudo python manage py runserver 80 Go to your phone or computer and enter your computers internal IP  e g 192 168 0 12  into the browser    At this point you should be connected to the Django server   This should also work without sudo   python manage py runserver 0 0 0 0 8000

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Pick one or more from    Your application isn t successfully listening on the intended IP PORT   Because you haven t configured it successfully Because the user doesn t have permission to  Your application is listening successfully on the intended IP PORT  but clients can t reach it because   The server local iptables prevents it  A firewall prevents it       So  you can check that your application is listening successfully by running lsof -i as root on the machine and look for a python entry with the corresponding port you ve specified   Non-root users generally cannot bind to ports  lt  1024   You ll need to look at iptables -nvL to see if there s a rule that would prevent access to the ip port that you are trying to bind your application to   If there is an upstream firewall and you don t know much about it  you ll need to talk to your network administrators

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If you are using Docker you need to make sure ports are exposed as well

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You have to run the development server such that it listens on the interface to your network   E g   python manage py runserver 0 0 0 0 8000   listens on every interface on port 8000   It doesn t matter whether you access the webserver with the IP or the hostname  I guess you are still in your own LAN  If you really want to access the server from outside  you also have to configure your router to forward port e g  8000 to your server     Check your firewall on your server whether incoming connections to the port in use are allowed   Assuming you can access your Apache server from the outside successfully  you can also try this    Stop the Apache server  so that port 80 is free  Start the development server with sudo python manage py runserver 0 0 0 0 80

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I had to add this line to settings py in order to make it work  otherwise it showed an error when accessed from another computer   ALLOWED HOSTS           then ran the server with   python manage py runserver 0 0 0 0 9595   Also ensure that the firewall allows connections to that port

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UPDATED 2020 TRY THIS WAY  python manage py runserver yourIp 8000  ALLOWED HOSTS

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