I am running a Node app that should be hosted on a local server. At the moment, I am sending just a plaintext response.
const http = require('http');
var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {ContentType: 'text/plain'});
res.end("test");
});
When I listen to the localhost everything works fine and I am able to send the request from my browser.
server.listen(3000, '127.0.0.1'); // works fine, on the same machine
However, if I try to listen to a port on my LAN network by typing the router's IP, I get an error.
server.listen(3000, '192.168.0.1'); // causes an error
Error: listen EADDRNOTAVAIL: address not available 192.168.0.1:3
000
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1253:19)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1318:12)
at doListen (net.js:1451:7)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:1
9)
at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:7
57:11)
at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:622:3)
Emitted 'error' event at:
at emitErrorNT (net.js:1297:8)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:1
9)
[... lines matching original stack trace ...]
at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:622:3)
I have tried this with my public IP address unsuccessfully.
Is there any way to listen to a port on a LAN server so that I can send requests from any computer on the network?
Also, I would later like my application to run on any computer on any LAN network. How can I dynamically add my host?
Try this
server.listen(3000, '0.0.0.0');
you can access your node application from other machine
e.g
your lan ip is 192.168.0.101 then you can browse 192.168.0.101:3000 from other machine