Django can't assign to ip address on google compute engine

Question

I might be asking a dumb question but I have been stuck on this for a quite some time now. I am running a Linux VM instance on google compute engine and installed Django in it. I have reserved a static ip address using networking but when I try to run

python manage.py runserver [my ip address]:8080

but i get this error:

Error: That IP address can't be assigned to.

I know it has something to do with my ip address configuration. I believe somehow, django is not able to reach my ip address. Does anyone know what to do? How do I configure this properly (in google console, VM or otherwise) to get this running?

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Use internal private IP address for the VM. That worked for me.

python manage.py runserver 10.xxx.0.x:8000