Connecting to localhost Flask server from network computers

Question

I have a Flask server running on one of my machines, with the app.run line looking like so:

    if __name__ == '__main__':
        app.run(debug = False, host = '0.0.0.0', port = 5000)

When I run the program it says,

    * Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/

and I can access it perfectly fine from my own machine, but whenever I try to connect from another computer using the URL 192.168.1.131:5000, the connection is stuck loading and times out.

I'm not sure why this is happening, if you could identify the problem that would be great.

This is answered [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/14823968/2800058) — pjcunningham, May 22 '17 at 22:19
@pjcunningham The post you mentioned does not answer the OP's question. — Liran Funaro, May 22 '17 at 23:40
Setup Gunicorn to serve for the app.It will take you 10 minutes tops. Flask standard server is really just for testing. — Mikael, May 23 '17 at 00:03

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 02 '19 at 20:07

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You must replace '0.0.0.0' with your local network IP.

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug = False, host = '192.168.1.131', port = 5000)

answered Dec 02 '19 at 20:07

shabaany

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Connecting to localhost Flask server from network computers

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