I am developing a web application on my local computer in Django.
Now I want my webapp to be accessible to other computers on my network. We have a common network drive "F:/". Should I place my files on this drive or can I just write something like "python manage.py runserver test_my_app:8000" in the command prompt to let other computers in the network access the web server by writing "test_my_app:8000" in the browser address field? Do I have to open any ports and how can I do this?
It is should be done with central system or server.
By default manage.py runserver
will not give ip bind permission. So
Note that the default IP address, 127.0.0.1, is not accessible from other machines on your network. To make your development server viewable to other machines on the network, use its own IP address (e.g. 192.168.2.1) or 0.0.0.0 or :: (with IPv6 enabled).
If you want to check in your local machine then follow
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
Now go to your network computer and access your ip like 192.168.1.24:8000
Updated:
For Django version about 1.10 you should add your host to ALLOWED_HOSTS here
Run the application with IP address then access it in other machines.
python manage.py runserver 192.168.56.22:1234
Both machines should be in same network, then only this will work.