Accessing local GAE SDK server from another computer in the network

I have development server (from google appengine sdk), running on my Ubuntu computer. I can access my site by navigating to localhost:8080

I want to access that site from another computer (with Vista OS) in the network.

ifconfig prints the following (snippet):

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:e1:c5:30:cf

inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21f:e1ff:fec5:30cf/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX开发者_开发百科 packets:39204 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:46271 TX packets:26198 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:25876770 (25.8 MB) TX bytes:4566161 (4.5 MB) Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc000

I thought that I should just type http://192.168.1.103:8080 on my second machine to access the server, but that doesn't work.

I can share files in my home network successfully, so my Vista machine can navigate some directories in my Ubuntu machine, but I can't access the server.

What should I try next? Do I have to configure router in some way?

Thanks in advance.

If you're using Python:

sudo python2.5 dev_appserver.py -a 192.168.1.103 -p 8080 myapp/

Edit:
The development server also happens to listen to port 8080 by default, so that 2nd argument is redundant.

The first check is indeed the ping check

ping 192.168.1.103

As said by Andre Holzner, I too feel the same possibility. You can easily check this by opening file /etc/hosts. sudo vi /etc/hosts.

If you see following entries,

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

192.168.1.103

then simply comment the 1st line and restart your web application.

Check if now you can connect it through other machine.

for an appengine specific solution see this: http://thecoderscanon.com/?p=115.

Just add the Extra Flags: "-a 0.0.0.0"

Make sure that you have the port 8080 open in Ubuntu's firewall settings.

This is most likely a firewall issue on your linux box.