Fossil SCM in Windows, how to make timeline accessible in LAN?

Question

I have run the Fossil-SCM web interface for timeline of my project at port 8080 using the command

fossil.exe ui

I'm connected to a LAN, my IP is 192.168.137.11 and I want to access the timeline from the IP 192.168.137.8

When I try to open 192.168.137.11:8080 in browser from .8 pc I'm getting page not found error. But when I try the following I'm getting some response.

ping 192.168.137.11

Help me on this.

Answer 1

From the command-line help for the fossil ui command:

The "ui" command automatically starts a web browser after initializing
the web server.  The "ui" command also binds to 127.0.0.1 and so will
only process HTTP traffic from the local machine.

Since you're trying to access fossil from another computer than the local machine, that won't work. Instead, you should use the command fossil server. Then it will bind to all available IP addresses, and accept connections from other machines on the network.

(The only other difference between fossil server and fossil ui is that the latter will launch a web browser with the home page for the current project, whereas fossil server won't do that).