Question

I have downloaded django and have followed the instructions to deploy my first website:

In the docs, it says:

“Now that the server’s running, visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ with your Web browser. You’ll see a “Welcome to Django” page, in pleasant, light-blue pastel. It worked!”

The problem is that I am not running the website locally, instead, it is on a remote machine. Additionally, I have Apache running on that machine, so when I type:

http://my_ipaddress

I get the default apache page.

When I run http://my_ipadress:8000

I get the error (in my browser);

Oops! Firefox could not connect to
[MY_IPADDRESS]:8000

How may I resolve this?

Answer 1

Right now, you are running a development server, and by default, it prevents the web page from being hosted to a remote client. The way to get around this is in the section called "Changing the port" in the docs you linked:

If you want to change the server’s IP, pass it along with the port. So to listen on all public IPs (useful if you want to show off your work on other computers), use:

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000