Re: Django external access [Windows]

2010-06-06 Thread John Yeukhon Wong
Good news. Weird thing happened. I am okay with the access. It seems like even with the DNS service such as no-ip.org still requires the users to access via abc.no-ip.org:8000 instead of abc.no- ip.org. But I thought I had tried abc.no-ip.org:8000 already yesterday. Thank you, Sam. On Jun 6, 1

Re: Django external access [Windows]

2010-06-05 Thread Sam Lai
Does it work from another machine on the same local network? This is definitely possible though; I've done it before. On 6 June 2010 14:35, John Yeukhon Wong wrote: > I just disabled the FW, but no luck with any trials. > > Yeah. Security isn't my concern because only a few people (including > m

Re: Django external access [Windows]

2010-06-05 Thread John Yeukhon Wong
I just disabled the FW, but no luck with any trials. Yeah. Security isn't my concern because only a few people (including myself) will learn about this project. They will only see the interfaces at certain stages when I give out notifications. I am sure in Linux there isn't any problem with overri

Re: Django external access [Windows]

2010-06-05 Thread Sam Lai
Oops. Seems like you've tried that already. Have you checked your Windows firewall settings? On 6 June 2010 13:53, Sam Lai wrote: > By default, the Django development server does not allow hosts to > connect unless it is localhost (127.0.0.1) or a local IP > (192.168.1.101 in your case). > > Doi

Re: Django external access [Windows]

2010-06-05 Thread Sam Lai
By default, the Django development server does not allow hosts to connect unless it is localhost (127.0.0.1) or a local IP (192.168.1.101 in your case). Doing this is a *bad idea*, as indicated by the docs - http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/django-admin/#djadmin-runserver If you really do

Django external access [Windows]

2010-06-05 Thread John Yeukhon Wong
For my home purpose, currently I am running Windows XP. I have everything ready. Django, Python are all good. If I let the runserver (I am using the django-development server) to be 127.0.0.1:8000 or 192.168.1.101:8000 they all worked. Let say abc.no-ip.org is a FREE DNS service I use to access