On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Audleman <kevin.audle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been moving forward with the django server option and have come > across an oddity: while I can access my site on the resident machine > via http://localhost:8000, if I try to access it from another machine > on the network via http://10.0.0.66:8000 I get an error in my browser: > > Failed to Connect > Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a > connection. > > If I can get this problem resolved, then I've found my lowest barrier > solution. Any thoughts? Is there something baked into the django > server that prevents one from accessing it via a remote machine?
./manage.py runserver will attempt to bind to localhost:8000 by default. This address isn't visible to any outside machine (by definition - it's the _local_ host). However, if you tell Django to bind to a publicly visible network adaptor - ./manage.py runserver 10.0.0.6:8000 - you should be able to see the server externally. As to whether this is a good idea: The dev server has three major limitations: * It will only service once query at a time, so it has some very serious performance limitations * It hasn't been audited for security, so it shouldn't be exposed to even a slightly hostile environment. * It has no built-in daemonization, so you'll need to write the scripts to daemonize the process, rotate logs, etc. If those limitations don't affect your situation, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with using the dev server in a restricted production environment. I've used the dev server on a PDA, for example, with great success. However, I suspect you will find that even a full Apache install will be a lot less effort than wrangling the limitations of the dev server. Yours Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
