Serve your Django application over wifi (the local network)

In case you were wondering how to do this, here’s how.

To serve your Django application over the local network, run this command

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Alternatively, you can use the IP address of the host machine on the local network.

Your IP address on the local network

Open up a terminal on Linux and use the ifconfig command. Read the description here.

ifconfig

Then look for the inet field in the status output under the current interface. In my case the current interface is wifi0.

then do

python manage.py runserver 192.168.88.14:8000

Enjoy!