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

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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.

👤Alex Martelli

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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.

👤Davor Lucic

11đź‘Ť

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.

👤trez

7đź‘Ť

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)

👤Bonfix Ngetich

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Already answered but adding npm alternate of same localtunnel

sudo npm install -g localtunnel

lt --port 8000 --subdomain yash
👤Yash

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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!

👤RezA

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You need to configure bridged networking in VMWare and also grant access to the target port in Ubuntu firewall.

👤J. Random Geek

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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).

👤alexdlaird

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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.

👤400ZP

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