There's a code I found in internet that says it gives my machines local network IP address: hostname = socket.gethostname() local_ip = socket.gethostbyname(hostname) but the IP it returns is 192.1...

I have multiple devices on my local network each running a webserver. This web server simply displays a UI to interact with the device. There can be any number of these available and they can be us...

I have tried this and this answers but I still cannot access my local host from another computer in the same network using express server. I am running my express server from a windows 10 machine...

If I access my web site via http://localhost:8080 from the same Win 7 PC, where server is running, then it works well. If I try to access that from another PC (with usage of my internal PC's ip ht...

I would like to connect with React Native to an external database, like PostgreSQL, MySQL or what ever. Is this possible? But first let me tell you something about my plan: I will develop my app...

In similar questions, the question that has been answered is: why do we need both MAC and IP addresses on the internet? They are both addresses. Why can't one just be used to describe a device...

I have rails application. If I start it with rails s (port 3000), it works perfectly both on my machine and every device on my local network via the ip address (192.168.0.3 in my case). I have sina...

I get following error when trying to access Xampp from a network I've tried but does not get any idea how to resolve it. Any help??I really confused Access Forbidden : Access to the requeste...

I want to start a local network connection using the built-in Wi-Fi hotspot on Android devices. Is there a way to accomplish it? And how to communicate between two devices? EDIT: I want to do it p...

I currently use Apache on my machine to test PHP websites locally. I was just wondering how I can allow computers connected to my local network to access the website hosted on my local machine.