Accessing local GAE SDK server from another computer in the network

Question

I have development server (from google appengine sdk), running on my Ubuntu computer. I can access my site by navigating to localhost:8080

I want to access that site fro

Answer 1

for an appengine specific solution see this: http://thecoderscanon.com/?p=115.

Just add the Extra Flags: "-a 0.0.0.0"

Answer 2

Make sure that you have the port 8080 open in Ubuntu's firewall settings.

This is most likely a firewall issue on your linux box.

Answer 3

If you're using Python:

sudo python2.5 dev_appserver.py -a 192.168.1.103 -p 8080 myapp/

Edit:
The development server also happens to listen to port 8080 by default, so that 2nd argument is redundant.

Answer 4

The first check is indeed the ping check

ping 192.168.1.103

As said by Andre Holzner, I too feel the same possibility. You can easily check this by opening file /etc/hosts. sudo vi /etc/hosts.

If you see following entries,

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

192.168.1.103

then simply comment the 1st line and restart your web application.

Check if now you can connect it through other machine.