Django 0.0.0.0:80; can't access remotely

Question

I\'m trying to access my Django server from another computer on the same network. I\'ve set up my server and can view everything correctly usingpython manage.py runse

Answer 1

From your mention of forwarding port 80, it sounds like your second computer is on a different network (router) from the one running Django. In that case, you should browse to the IP of the Django network's router - the 192.168 address is only visible from behind that router, and port forwarding will ensure that your request goes to the right machine.

Answer 2

Sounds like it is a firewall issue then. Did you make sure to open port 80 on your server computer?

Answer 3

As far as I understand, 0.0.0.0 is a non-routable IP.

It will only work on the local machine, if you bind a socket to the address.

Answer 4

In order for it to work for me, I ran sudo python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80 in terminal (Mac OS X 10.8.2), and then in your ipad (or iphone) browser, go to http://[your ip address]/. I didn't have to do this: Testing Django website on iphone

Answer 5

what OS are you running this on? have you tried to give the command root privileges? (assuming you're running it on ubuntu/linux)

try running this instead:

sudo python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80

Answer 6

When running it from Ubuntu, it said permission denied when I tried to do this:

    python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80

Since it was a permission issue the following worked just fine like Ryan and gtujan said.

    sudo python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80

NOTE: that you are running a server on port 80, which is a HTTP Port. So when typing the URL from your web-browser you do not necessarily need to type ":80" in your URL.

    http://192.168.1.146:80/

The following should suffice. Even if you do type ":80" it is considered the same.

    http://192.168.1.146/

However for other port numbers such as 8000 etc, :8000 is required to be part of the URL.