can not access port 8000 from remote machine

[xristy]

Hi,

Mac OS 10.13.2. Firewall is OFF. Simple python mkdocs server running on port 8000 and accessible to browsers on localhost.

However, machines on local net can not access port 8000 via IP address, e.g., http://192.168.2.90:8000/

This sort of thing used to work trivially on 10.12 and earlier.

There seems to be some sort of security thing that I can't find to configure or disable.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[HDFan]

Any difference if you drop the trailing slash?

http://192.168.2.90:8000

What address are you using when accessing the server via the local browser?

 

[xristy]

Resolved. The problem was that the way that mkdocs uses python SimpleHTTPServer does not permit external accesses. The default for the python server is to listen on 0.0.0.0 but in mkdocs it is apparently listening on 127.0.0.1 thus only local requests are served.