Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app

Re:Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an... by pryelluw on Sunday October 22, 2017 @09:38PM (#15530077)

I installed this months ago and cant figure out how to access localhost through my browser. I wrote a sample flask app and ran it but cant access it outside of termux. Is there a way to do so?

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Re:Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an... by hyperpallium on Monday October 23, 2017 @12:35AM (#15530753)

  python3 -m http.server
  http://localhost:8000/  # on phone

However, I haven't been able to access a server running on termux on my phone from anywhere else. I suspect servers are blocked by my mobile ISP (makes sense!), but I never got to the bottom of it.

Should work over wifi though.

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Re:Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an... by icebraining on Monday October 23, 2017 @04:36AM (#15531653)

I suspect servers are blocked by my mobile ISP (makes sense!), but I never got to the bottom of it.

Many mobile ISPs run NAT, you don't even get a public IP of your own during the session, just an internal one.

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Re:Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an... by hyperpallium on Monday October 23, 2017 @05:09AM (#15531782)

Thanks! Is there a way to do it? It must support bi-dir streams, they just need to be initiated from the phone.

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Re:Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an... by icebraining on Monday October 23, 2017 @05:39AM (#15531898)

You can use a tunnel like https://pagekite.net/ it seems they support Android.

Alternatively, you can DIY by connecting to some other machine using SSH and establishing a reverse tunnel.

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Re:Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an... by npolet on Monday October 23, 2017 @01:40AM (#15530960)

I tend to run:

    python -m http.server 0.0.0.0:8000

That should allow you to access it externally.

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Re:Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an... by pryelluw on Monday October 23, 2017 @07:21AM (#15532298)

Just tested it and wont work.

Edit:

Works if you just run:

    python3 -m http.server

Thanks for the help

Edit[1]:

Works great with python's built in web server but wont work with flask's built in development web server.

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