Cesanta/Mongoose c++ server not accessible outside localhost on Mac - c++

I have tried to setup a server on my machine using the examples provided (http-restful-server). This works fine when accessing the server from the same device (localhost:8000) but is not accessible from another device on the local network.
mg_http_listen is using 0.0.0.0:8000 instead of localhost:8000 as per this question.
I have the firewall completely turned off
I have tried running as sudo.
I am however able to access a basic python server from another device on the network using python -m http.server 8000 --bind 0.0.0.0
Both the python and mongoose listeners appear in sudo lsof -I -nP | grep LISTEN for their respective ports
So it appears to be a problem in mongoose itself. How can I make the server accessible to other devices as python is?

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Django Application running on Ubuntu VPS: This site can’t be reached

I am running an ubuntu 16.04 cloud VPS server. I've set up a venv and activated it, and installed django.
I run the server with
python3 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
I am trying to access this application from a remote computer (not inside the same LAN); I'm trying to make the application visible to the world outside the VPS and VPLAN. When I try to access the site in my home computer broswer like: xx.xx.xxx.xxx:8000 I get the error:
This site can’t be reached. http://xx.xx.xxx.xxx:8000/ is unreachable.
Now I've tried a traceroute and it seems to reach the server ok. I also did
sudo ufw enable
sudo ufw 8000 allow
sudo iptables -S | grep 8000 (and see the proper entries)
In the settings file I have:
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["*", "0.0.0.0", "localhost", "xx.xx.xxx.xxx","xxx.temporary.link"]
If I wget localhost:8000 I get a response fine. I have tried doing all of the above as root and as another dedicated user but it makes no difference.
I ran through this guide
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-16-04
and I still have the same issue.
Does anyone have any other ideas? Thanks in advance
Try:
sudo ufw allow 8000
Not:
sudo ufw 8000 allow

How to host a django website in my pc and view it in another pc?

I have a django project in my pc.
In terminal I've run python3 manage.py runserver <my ipaddress>:8001
When I try to open the link in another pc, it is showing error page which says:
Invalid HTTP_HOST header: '<my ipaddress>:8001'. You may need to add '<my ipaddress>' to ALLOWED_HOSTS.
What should I do?
And moreover is it possible to put some text in place of ipaddress in the url?
For example, I want to host it as myproject/ instead of that complex url.
On one condition this will work
if both computers are on the same network like local Hotspot or same
LAN network
steps:
add '*' in your django projects's setting file in Allowed Host it will look like
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
run your server on this ip 0.0.0.0 and port any like 8000 using this command
manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
run ifconfig if you are using linux ipconfig if windows then you will get your ip address of your server
Open browser in another computer and enter the ip of server shown in 3rd step with port as 8000
http://ip-of-server:8000
Instead of passing <my-ip-address> to the runserver command, pass 0.0.0.0.
If both the machines are in the same network you can run the application on 0.0.0.0 IP address (refers to all IPv4 addresses on the local machine). Refer this link wiki 0.0.0.0 for more details. So, on application server run this:
manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8001
Now, from the other machines, access it using http://youripaddresss:8001 , where < youripaddress > is the actual ip address of your machine.
If both computers are not on the same network (local hotspot or LAN network)
You can use ngrok to view whatever is running on your localhost from any device
Using ngrok to view your django project from any device
follow the steps below:
Add '*' in your django projects's setting file in Allowed Hosts:
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
Download ngrok from the official website
Unzip the downloaded file and then go to the directory where the ngrok file is located via your terminal
Then type the command:
ngrok http 8000
or
./ngrok http 8000
Now you can open the url generated by ngrok on any device to view what is running on your pc:
https://randomly_generated_subdomain.ngrok.io
PS: this can also be used for any webserver running locally, not just django site
ngrok is a great tool that can be used to:
Run personal cloud services from your home
Demo websites without deploying
Build webhook consumers on your dev machine
Test mobile apps connected to your locally running backend
Stable addresses for your connected devices that are deployed in the field
Run your server with this command python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
Then you can access your website from any system connected to your wifi with an URL like 192.168.0.1:8000
You may get your IP Address using this command in CMD ipconfig in windows and ifconfig in mac
Also add your IP to ALLOWED_HOSTS in setting.py
ALLOWED_HOST = ['*'] in your settings.py
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
then make sure your machine firewall allows incoming and outgoing traffic.
I use linux machine so from control center go to firewall and allow both incoming and outgoing.
then on your local network machine.
:8000
This is it !
worked for me

port number not accessible when running webpack-dev-server

I have a centOS 7.2 box as my web server hosted in aws. I found something interesting : when I run my web site using a nginx docker container, I'm able to access it from my local machine. i.e. run docker command
docker run -d -p 8000:80 my-nginx-image
and access the web site through the below url (my local machine is connected to that aws host machine via a vpn connection)
http://10.77.20.253/index.html
This works perfectly well. However, when I try to host the site using webpack-dev-server, i.e.
webpack-dev-server --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000
I can access it from that web server with no problem, but I can't access it from my local machine. I always get a timeout error.
I then did a
netstat -anp
on that linux box, I noticed that when running from docker, it is listening on
:::8000
while when I run from wds, it was listening on
0.0.0.0:8000
I'm not sure what i'm missing here, so far I have tried
webpack-dev-server --host localhost --port 8000
webpack-dev-server --host 127.0.0.1--port 8000
webpack-dev-server --host 10.77.20.253 --port 8000 (the internal ip address)
but none of them works.
Any thoughts on it??

Can't connect to VM running Django

Using VirtualBox, I have a NAT enabled VM running Centos 7. The host OS is Windows 7. I can't seem to access the Django web server running inside the VM. What am I missing?
I have two port forwarding rules set for the Virtual Machine:
I start the Django web server on the guest OS with:
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
And I try to visit the webpage on the host OS at:
http://localhost:8000
Google Chrome gives me the error code ERR_CONNECTION_RESET.
The result of curl on the host OS:
[user#win7 ~ ]$ curl http://localhost:8000
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
Here is the result of a netstat performed on the guest OS:
[user#vm ~ ]$ netstat -na | grep 8000
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
Here is the result of a netstat performed on the host OS (with Cygwin):
[user#win7 ~ ]$ netstat -na | grep 8000
TCP 0.0.0.0:8000 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
It is also worth mentioning that the SSH rule works. I can SSH into the machine with no problems.
This is not a solution, but a work-around for my problem. Maybe this will help anyone encountering a problem similar to mine, and just wants to be able to connect to their VM's webserver.
Since SSH was working, I figured I could access the webpage via a SSH Tunnel. The syntax for doing so via command line is:
ssh -L <local-port>:<remote-host>:<remote-port>
So in my situation, if I wanted to open a tunnel via command line I would do:
ssh -L 8000:127.0.0.1:8000
This would allow me to browse to http://localhost:8000 and access the website.
You can also do this via PuTTY, but I won't explain that here, so just Google for a guide.
The ssh tunnel is an OK work around, but the problem is almost certainly CentOS 7 which now uses firewalld rather than iptables to manager access. And, unlike iptables the default configuration is quite restrictive.
if
ps -ae | grep firewall
returns something like
602 ? 00:00:00 firewalld
your system is running firewalld, not iptables. They do not run together.
To correct your VM so you can access your django site from the host use the commands:
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=8000/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload
Many thanks to pablo v in the post "Access django server on virtual Machine" for pointing this out.

Local Django website won't load in browser

I'm guessing there's a very simple solution to this, but I searched every forum and setup guide and can't figure it out:
I built a Django/CentOS-6.3 environment on my local server (using VirtualBox and Vagrant). When I startup my server in the vagrant terminal with 'python manage.py runserver [::]:8000' it starts up with no errors.
Validating models...
0 errors found
May 31, 2013 - 13:56:15
Django version 1.5.1, using settings 'mysitename.settings'
Development server is running at http://[::]:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
However, when I try to navigate to 'http://127.0.0.1:8001' in my browser (I set up port forwarding from port 8000 to port 8001 in my Vagrantfile), the browser just hangs for 5 minutes until it times out, then it returns the message:
> The connection was reset
> The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
> ...
This is the exact same message I get from the browser even after I shut down my local server. My computer obviously recognizes this as a forwarded port, because any other port I try (such as 8000) instantly returns an error saying that it can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:8000.
With regard to the server files, I have done many similar setups with Django/Ubuntu in the past and have never had any issues, but there must be something different about Django/CentOS that is causing this to happen (or maybe I made a mistake someone in one of my server files). I have followed guides for setting up Django & PostgreSQL on CentOS, too, but to no avail. I'll comment some of the files I have created/edited below.
If anyone has a solution, or even has advice on where to start looking for errors, I would very much appreciate it.
If your network is configured correctly and your django application with
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
and you still can't access your django app from the VM host there is almost certainly a firewall issue. The solution above is good if you are running iptables.
I deployed CentOS 7 on a virtualbox VM from a Windows 7 host. I didn't know that this distribution uses firewalld, not iptables to control access.
if
ps -ae | grep firewall
returns something like
602 ? 00:00:00 firewalld
your system is running firewalld, not iptables. They do not run together.
To correct you VM so you can access your django site from the host use the commands:
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=8000/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload
Many thanks to pablo v for pointing this out in the post "Access django server on virtual Machine".
the host's "127.0.0.1" is not the same as the guest's "127.0.0.1". Per default the command
python manage.py runserver
listens only to the guest's localhost. You should be able to test it from within the vm (use "vagrant ssh" to login) and run
curl -I http://127.0.0.1:8000/
The host as a different IP. To access the development server from the host you have to start it without ip restriction:
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
Yes:
python manage.py runserver [::]:8000
should be the same. But that's IPv6 syntax AFAIK. Are you sure that the "manage.py runserver" command supports IPv6 by default? I've never used ipv6 addresses w/ django, but looking at the source (https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py) there seams to be a flag that the default to False ("--ipv6"). Perhaps that's the "real" problem?
Regards,
For a similar problem,
This command worked like a charm for me
python manage.py runserver [::]:8001
Check your iptables, and stop it. Ubuntu commonly does not open the iptables when it starts.