amazon ec2 - Connecting to EC2 Django development Server

Question

I am new to EC2 and web development. Currently I have a Linux EC2 instance running, and have installed Django. I am creating a test project before I start on my real project and tried running a Django test server.

This is my output in the shell:

python manage.py runserver ec2-###-##-##-##.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8000
Validating models...

0 errors found
Django version 1.3, using settings 'testsite.settings'
Development server is running at http://ec2-###-##-##-##.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.

To test that it is wroking I have tried visiting: ec2-###-##-##-##.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8000 but I always get a "Cannot connect" message from my browser.

Whenever I do this lcoally on my computer however I do successfully get to the DJango development home page at 127.0.0.1:8000. Could someone help me figure out what I am doing wrong / might be missing when I am doing this on my EC2 instance as opposed to my own laptop?

Answer 1

Using an ec-2 instance with Ubuntu, I found that specifying 0.0.0.0:8000 worked:

$python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000  

Of course 8000 does need to be opened for TCP in your security group settings.