personal web server

[geezy]

If I have personal web space on my university server but I want to set up a server at home to host my webpage since there is not enough room on the school server what exactly do I have to do? I know I have to set up a redirect at the university, but do I just have to point it to my dynamic ip address? I shouldn't have to pay for other webspace right?

thanks ahead of time

[blobaugh]

you should probably talk to your server admin. they may be able to give you a static ip address which would make it easier to run a server off your computer. or they may be willing to up the space a little bit

[geezy]

They won't really be willing to up my disk quota with all the other school work I have on it. It is still possible to have a server running even with a dynamic ip right?

[Dark Ninja]

Or, another alternative is to create the main website on your school server, and then have any links to larger files point back to the server on your own personal computer (Apache is the best).

Also, you can avoid the dynamic IP problem by giving your own personal computer a name on the network. For example, "mycomputer.school.edu" so every time your computer is assigned a new IP address, you don't need to update your links.

Hope that's clear -- my brain is fried right now.:(

[geezy]

Maybe this is simple and would be answered when setting up the server, but how would I give my computer a name on the network? Would that work the same when I'm at school actually on the network and when I'm at home in another state?

[blobaugh]

i think that would only work while you are on the network. you could try a dynamic dns domain service, they would auto-update your ip when you logon. goto google and search for dynamic dns

[jme]

The dyn-dns soultion is the best one that i have found.

I run my own web server from home hosting 8 sites on a dynamic ip. Basically you go to a dyn-sns proviser and setup and account which can be either a free sub-domain from a choice of them like www.foo.no-ip.com, or if you have a domain, or want to buy one you can have it with them for a charge.

Basically you install a little app on your computer which checks the ip address of your computer and compairs this with the ip address on the DNS servers of no-ip.com. When it changes the DNS changes at no-ip.com and re-routes all traffic to the new ip address.

The best this that I have found is that if I had the domain www.justlinux.com but wanted to host this from home I would setup a free account with the sub-domain (free) such as www.justlinux.no-ip.com and then forward all requests for www.justlinux.com to www.justlinux.no-ip.com - nobody would be able to tell the difference usless they really checked!

Great service for people like us who have DSL connections but no static IP address. I have been using it for almost a year now with no problems at all.

HTH

Jamie

[hard candy]

I tried www.justlinux.no-ip.com and it didn't work!
:D

[jme]

Originally posted by hard candy
I tried www.justlinux.no-ip.com and it didn't work!
:D

Quick ....must register it now!!

:D :P

[geezy]

Instead of using a dyn-dns company like no-ip. Say I have a web server running at my house and someone wants to access it my going to www.myuniversity.edu/~myname. Is there anyway to have it redirect to my ip address and have some piece of software that updates the ip address of my machine. Since I already have space on the school servers I would like to not have to have people type in www.mysite.no-ip.com. I'm not sure if all that makes sense.


Maybe the only way is have the redirect from the school go to www.mysite.no-ip.com and then go to my ip address.

[blobaugh]

you can use the dyn-dns addr in place of the links that would be on the university server. instead you would have yourcom.no-ip.com in the link, that way people would still goto your university site and the links would be linked to your server at home or wherever it is. no one would even know it was getting stuff from another place