Question

I’ve got django running on a dev. box that I’d like to be able to make requests to from another dev. box on my LAN. I’m getting no response at all though, even though I can ping just fine, no firewalls are operating, etc.

Is there a setting in Django somewhere that prevents it from responding to remote requests by default?

Thanks

Answer 1

Are you binding the Django server to 127.0.0.1 perchance? Or are you binding to the IP addres assigned to an interface that is reachable by the other computer?

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To bind the server to another address look at using python manage.py runserver <ip address>:<port> as answered in this StackOverflow question: google code + temp server?

Also see the manage.py documentation from Django.

Do note that there is going to be a performance impact, the dev server is not meant for concurrent access and will perform poorly if multiple people are browsing at the same time..