Accessing development install on local network

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How can I access my development install from another device on my local network? I have Macs, iOS, and use a Time Capsule as my router.

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Assuming you don’t have any firewalls blocking connections, you just need to make a request to http://ip:port on a device within your network.

Here’s an article showing how to find your local ip:

As an example, if my computer’s ip was 192.168.1.101, and ghost was listening on 2368 (default port), I could view the site by visiting http://192.168.1.101:2368 on my phone

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Is yours in development or production? I tried the IP and port…

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@Christopher_Rice you’ll also need to change your host config to listen on your computer’s IP address, or 0.0.0.0, eg:

{
    "url": "http://{your-ip}:2368",
    "server": {
        "host": "0.0.0.0",
        "port: 2368
    }
}

If you don’t do that then node will only listen on the local loopback interface (127.0.0.1) so any requests coming in from a different network interface like your wi-fi/network card won’t reach your Ghost process.

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My config file appears to be “locked”. Is the only way to change it via the CLI command line?

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ghost config set server.host 0.0.0.0

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This worked wonders. Thanks a lot!

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And I found that I then had to restart ghost for it to actually take effect. ghost stop then ghost start.

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Yep. Any configuration changes to Ghost on the CLI or by editing config.json require a restart. :)

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