json-server cannot access via local IP

Question

I'm using npm json-server from here. It used to work great for my needs: run a server on my PC and do GET requests to local IP (192.168.1.XX). I reinstalled it and now I can do requests only to localhost or 127.0.0.1. Can't do requests to local IP (cmd ipconfig) anymore. I'm getting this error:

As @fvu mentioned here

this means that the server software is configured to listen on the localhost interface only. This is a configuration item and to avoid exposing a potentially unsecure server many server programs come preconfigured to listen on localhost only.

So is there a way to access this server via local IP as long as json-server doesn't have some extra parameters to enable/disable it?

Answer 1

I found the solution for this issue:

json-server --host 192.168.1.XXX my_file.json

Using this command, server is deployed on my local IP, and Windows asks for a firewall exception.

Another solution is to switch to .NET server - another free simple fake server where I can setup local IP as endpoint.

All it needs to:

1. install .NET

2. use CMD commands:

      git clone https://github.com/ttu/dotnet-fake-json-server.git
      cd dotnet-fake-json-server/FakeServer
      dotnet run [--file] [--urls]
   
       #like so in my case:
       dotnet run --file_data.json --urls http://192.168.1.192:57602