How can I host my django project on my pc for someone to see it outside my WIFI network

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Can some one pls explain what steps show I follow to host my django project on my pc and allow anyone outside my network WIFI to see the webiste

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Op woensdag 23 december 2020 om 18:46:22 UTC+1 schreef joseenoc...@gmail.com:

[Kasper Laudrup]

You don't want to do that, but just in case:

You probably want to ensure that you have a static IP from your internet
provider. If you don't have that or for some reason cannot get one,
consider looking into dynamic DNS so you have a well known DNS name when
your public IP address changes.

Configure your router to forward requests on the port where your Django
website is running to the IP of your PC.

But you seriously don't want to do that. Look into how to deploy your
website instead.

Kind regards,

Kasper Laudrup

[Benny M]

I’m going to second Kasper on this. There’s enough affordable options out there that self hosting to a “safe enough” degree would be the more expensive route to go.

I did this myself for a little while - had a makeshift cloud service for myself right up until I had a dev-ops friend take a look. His little giggles and eye-rolls were enough to convince me that I was wholly out of my league.

It’s a fun idea, but if you’re going to do it right, it’s not going to be cheap and it’s still not going to be secure enough to keep your network from being compromised.

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[Mai Elshiashi]

If you're looking for a tool to allow anyone to see your project running on localhost. There's a cool tool called Ngrok Which exposes your localhost to  be public with a secure tunnel.Check it out. 
https://ngrok.com/ 

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[Shazia Nusrat]

Ngrok will help you publish your site for development if you need to show your work remotely. Remember you need to run two terminals on terminal 1 you will run your project as you normally do and on other terminal you need to run ngrok. It will provide you with couple of URLs one for http and another for https. Https is usually if you need to test it with social authentication etc. 

Hope this helps. 

Cheers

[Shazia Nusrat]

You also need to add your url provided by Ngrok to your Django settings.py "ALLOWED_HOSTS". Only then it will present your site on that URL. 

[Anselme Gildas Tchassem Boutchouang]

Cool, thanks

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