Debugging remote dev server

Allow runserver to accept requests from any address

By default, the runserver command will not accept outside connections.

python manage.py runserver 127.0.0.0:8000

This will only accept connections from 127.0.0.0, if you are connected to a remote server and not using port forwarding, then your address will not be recognized. To fix the issue, use:

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Extend the INTERNAL_IPS Setting

When DEBUG = True, if your ip address is something other than 127.0.0.1 then you still will not be able to view the site in debug mode. To fix this, you must add your ip address that you are accessing the server from to the list of internal ips. Since your local ip address will change constantly, it is easier to wildcard it with your local network addresses. Wildcarding is not supported by the INTERNAL_IPS setting so it must be extended in your settings.py file.

if DEBUG:

    from fnmatch import fnmatch
    class glob_list(list):
        def __contains__(self, key):
            for elt in self:
                if fnmatch(key, elt): return True
            return False

    INTERNAL_IPS = glob_list(['127.0.0.1', '192.168.*.*'])

This will give you the ability to debug a remote dev server. However, you probably don't want to have that mess in your settings.py file. A better solution is to make a local_settings.py file that will be ignored by source control.

Extend the settings file to import a local_settings.py

In settings.py

try:
    from local_settings import *
except ImportError:
    pass

Create a local_settings.py and move the code from above to extend internal ips into it, this time, you can remove the if DEBUG: statement if you will never have DEBUG = False on your dev server

from fnmatch import fnmatch
class glob_list(list):
    def __contains__(self, key):
        for elt in self:
            if fnmatch(key, elt): return True
        return False

INTERNAL_IPS = glob_list(['127.0.0.1', '192.168.*.*'])