Hi Apologies if theres another post on this that ive missed but im a little confused. My ISP wont provide a static IP address for me so Im having to use dyndns site name. However I'm following this guide http://www.howtoforge.org/perfect-server-ubuntu-8.10-p3 When it gets to this part: then edit /etc/hosts. Make it look like this: vi /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.100 server1.example.com server1 Im not sure what to put there. I called my server ubuntu, my static ip address for the server is 192.168.1.150 and my dyndns account for example is testserver.linuxhome.net How do I set this up? can anyone help please? I'm a little confused since this is my first ever server setup and I don't want to get it wrong. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Andy
closest solution to your problem is here: http://howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25145&highlight=dynamic set your local IP for testserver.linuxhome.net that will be fixed (static) in ISPConfig set in: Management/Server/Settings>DNS Default Ns1: and Default Ns2: to dns servers of you ISP provider. hope this will solve the problem. you can always later change ip in /etc/apache2/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf 192.168.0.100:80 to *:80 if you are using GoDaddy: http://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig_dns_godaddy
as long as you open the port on ur router to the IP addrress that is hosting the site the LAN IP address doesn't matter as long as it DNS name points to you WAN IP address and the port 80 on your router goes to your WWW box its all good as far as i know
