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

Question

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 wis

Answer 1

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

# .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).