He is running it with "./manage.py runserver", which listens to the local interface only (the 127.0.0.1 IP address).
To get it to listen to the external address instead, use "./manage.py runserver 192.168.56.101:8000" and then it will work. Or "0.0.0.0:8000" to listen to all interfaces. Greetings, Remco Gerlich On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:07 PM, bobhaugen <bob.hau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Our friend Chris Troutner installed our Django 1.4 app on Windows in > a VirtualBox running Ubuntu. > > He could access the Django app from the browser in Ubuntu, but not from > the Windows browser. > > He writes: > > - While you can access the front end in the Ubuntu VM, you can't > access it from the windows desktop. You should be able to by pointing your > Windows browser at http://192.168.56.101:8000, but that didn't work > for me. 192.168.56.101 was the IP address Virtual Box assigned to its > Host-Adapter. I can ping that address and SSH to it, but I can't bring up > Django. > > This is most likely a simple fix with the network settings, but as of > this writing, I haven't figured out a fix yet. > > Here's his whole story: > http://christroutner.com/blog/post/open-value-networks > > Anybody got any ideas so he can finish the story? > Thanks for any help you can offer. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/3cc31a21-fd27-4f3f-a4a7-767a028b72b5%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/3cc31a21-fd27-4f3f-a4a7-767a028b72b5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAFAGLK2a54hs2JxfX12KwfHFbr0%2BFMaSw9B1CYCaeYid2z8OEw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
