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

# <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).

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Already answered but adding npm alternate of same localtunnel

sudo npm install -g localtunnel

lt --port 8000 --subdomain yash

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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.