I'm working with PyCharm and I wonder if there's a way to make the Django embedded server accesible for the other hosts in my local network or I need to deploy my app on a dedicated web server such as Apache?
Now, I'm accessing my Django app like this in the browser:
http://localhost:8000/mypage/ and I want other users inside my local network to type:
http://my_private_ip:8000/mypage/ in their browsers and see the same page.
Just run the server (which is Django's embedded server FWIW, not PyCharm's) under http://my_private_ip:8000:
# ./manage.py help runserver Usage: manage.py runserver [options] [optional port number, or ipaddr:port] Starts a lightweight Web server for development. (...) # ./manage.py runserver my_private_ip:8000 
Assuming a Unix environment.
You need to ensure the server is listening not on the lo interface but on all interfaces (or at least the one used to connect to the LAN).
If you can customize the way PyCharm launches the server, use 0.0.0.0 as the host, as in:
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 Your coworkers can then use your LAN IP address. If you don't know it, use $ ip a.
