| From: | Joachim Thomas |
| Date: | 1 Aug 2000 at 15:51:58 |
| Subject: | DDNS was: Re: AMIOPEN: OT: Setting Up A web Server |
Hello Harold
On 01-Aug-00, Harold Grovesteen wrote:
>HG To be accessable from the web you need publicly registered IP address
>HG which does not change. You would need to get this from your Internet
>HG Service Provider. Also you should have a registered domain name. Your
>HG ISP can help with that or you can register it yourself through
>HG organizations which charge a small fee to do so. Technically the URL to
>HG access your site can have just an IP address, instead of a domain name,
>HG but that is not very useful for people to type in a browser. It does
>HG work fine in a link to your site.
>HG
>HG Also a dial up connection does not work well because youa are not
>HG always on the web and usually you get different IP addresses each time
>HG you dial into the ISP (although there are ways for the ISP to handle
>HG this with you domain name) and usually there are inactivity timeouts
>HG which drop you connection if there are no packets flowing.
>HG
>HG Hope this helps,
>HG Harold Grovesteen
>HG
>HG amimjf@connectfree.co.uk wrote:
>HG>
>HG> Hi,..
>HG>
>HG> I know this is way of topic, but i cant seem to find any simple
>HG> instructions on how to setup a simple webserver, does anybody know a
>HG> good site (one that is not trying to sell me a book !!).
>HG>
>HG> The software is sorted and i have configured apache for localhost
>HG> access which works just fine,.. but the main problem is.
>HG>
>HG> Where (how) do i get an IP address,..? i have the domain bit sorted,
>HG> but an IP is needed, help..
I resolved the problem in this way 1-2 years ago:
I got a DDNS (dynamic domain name service) from ddns.org
(jthomas.ddns.org) that redirects any call to my actual dynamic IP address
while I'm online with my A1200 through my ISP, running a little AREXX web
server. The script to link to the service was on Aminet when I found it, so
try to search 'ddns' or 'ddns.org' on Aminet (if you don't find anything,
let me know and I'll look for)...
hope it helps... ;-)
Regards
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