manage.py runserver

Question

I am running python manage.py runserver from a machine A when I am trying to check in machine B. The url I typed is http://A:8000/ .

I am getting an error like The system returned: (111) Connection refused

Answer 1

You can run it for machines in your network by

./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

And than you will be able to reach you server from any machine in your network. Just type on other machine in browser http://192.168.0.1:8000 where 192.168.0.1 is IP of you server... and it ready to go....

or in you case:

1. On machine A in command line ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
2. Than try in machine B in browser type http://A:8000
3. Make a sip of beer.

Source from django docs

Answer 2

You need to tell manage.py the local ip address and the port to bind to. Something like python manage.py runserver 192.168.23.12:8000. Then use that same ip and port from the other machine. You can read more about it here in the documentation.