[python-uk] Setting up Django on Google Cloud (basic server)

[Matt Wheeler]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 at 14:52 Samuel Muiruri <muiruri.samuel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I had this issue before with AWS i remember it was just as stressful then
> and actually can't remember what actually fixed it. I basically have a
> clean Ubuntu VM which I followed this guide
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-16-04
> step by step on creating and hosting django on a site.
>
> Every step worked smoothly until this point when I need to run the command
> "python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000" which starts the service (shown
> on the attached screenshot) (also is the google cloud page showing the
> given external ip) according to this with the server waiting visiting
> http://35.227.49.155:8000/ should bring the site or something but it
> fails to connect i get "
> This site can’t be reached
>
Have you checked the firewall rules?
I would suggest adding a tag to your Instance and then creating a firewall
rule for the same tag which allows port 8000 TCP ingress.

See https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/firewalls#default_firewall_rules
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