djangoadmin.py runserver should be able to listen on all available IPs

[mgood]

Since [539] the built-in Django server will only listen on 127.0.0.1 if an IP address is not specified. So, if you want to access the Django server from another machine you have to fill in the full IP of the server. I think that by default the server should use the empty string for the IP so that the server listens on all available IP addresses.

[Jacob]

This is by design; you should have to explicitly reveal the server on external addresses if you know you want to -- otherwise inexperienced users could accidentally expose development servers.

[Matthew Good <trac@…>]

Ok, listening on the loopback is a decent default, but I'd rather not have to type my IP when I'm running the server, plus there's now no way to allow it to listen on all addresses, so "localhost" won't work at the same time as an external IP. The following patch allows specifying the address as "*" which will make the server listen on all IPs.

django/core/management.py

@@ -549 +549 @@
     from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler
     if not addr:
         addr = '127.0.0.1'
+    elif addr == '*':
+        addr = ''
     if not port.isdigit():
         sys.stderr.write("Error: %r is not a valid port number.\n" % port)
         sys.exit(1)
@@ -557 +559 @@
         print "Validating models..."
         validate()
         print "\nStarting server on port %s with settings module %r." % (port, SETTINGS_MODULE)
-        print "Go to http://%s:%s/ for Django." % (addr, port)
+        print "Go to http://%s:%s/ for Django." % (addr or '127.0.0.1', port)
         print "Quit the server with CONTROL-C (Unix) or CTRL-BREAK (Windows)."
         try:
             run(addr, int(port), AdminMediaHandler(WSGIHandler()))

[Boffbowsh]

Use runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 to make it listen on all interfaces