Host Application With Embedded Mongoose Server

Question

I have created a standalone exe to provide some REST APIs using embedded mongoose server [ official C version ]. It works fine on my machine on localhost. Now my plan is to run this application on a server from where client applications can use it. But can't make it work across machines.It only works on the machine it is running with localhost url. I am using port 5554. Is there any setting in mongoose server to do this ?

Answer 1

Set listening URL to http://0.0.0.0:PORT. Binding to 0.0.0.0 would accept connections from anywhere. Binding to localhost (or, to 127.0.0.1 which is the same this) would accept connection only from your local workstation.

See https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/tree/master/examples/http-restful-server