[Python] Web page won't show up when I run a Dockerized Django project

I'm trying to Dockerize a Django project but the webpage won't show up when I run the container. However, I don't get any errors in the terminal when I run docker compose up --build. I've confirmed on Docker Desktop that my container is present and running.

The error I get is ERR_ADDRESS_INVALID which says the site can't be reached.

Here is what my Dockerfile looks like:

FROM python:3

ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libpq-dev

WORKDIR /app

COPY requirements.txt .

RUN pip install -r requirements.txt

COPY . .

EXPOSE 8000

CMD ["python", "manage.py", "runserver", "0.0.0.0:8000"]


I tried adding the "0.0.0.0:8000" to CMD but that didn't work either.

Here's my docker-compose.yml file:

version: "3"

services:
web:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile
ports:
- "8000:8000"


And lastly here is my requirements.txt file:

asgiref==3.6.0
Django==4.2.1
djangorestframework==3.14.0
psycopg2==2.9.6
pytz==2023.3
sqlparse==0.4.4
tzdata==2023.3



After looking up the problem online and on YouTube, I'm not sure what the problem is because it seems like I have everything I need.

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