[nylug-talk] URL redirect

[Paul Robbins]

Marco.
The CNAME solved my problem!! Thanks.

I used this link for the GoDaddy specifics.

http://www.smugmug.com/help/godaddy.mg

On 10/5/07, Paul Robbins <robbins.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> David,
> That sounds nice, but I think that is what ClarkConnect has built in.  No
> matter how much I change my IP address, the example.pointclark.net always
> finds my box.  I an trying out the CNAME thing now.
>
> On 10/5/07, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
> >
> > If you don't mind spending $25 a year, you can use a service like this:
> >
> > http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/custom/
> >
> > In a nutshell, it lets you associate your domain name with a dynamic IP
> > address.  The way it works is:
> >
> > 1) you tell the registrar to use the dynamic dns service provider's DNS
> > server for your domain.  This will cause anyone accessing your site to
> > use the dynamic service provider's dns servers when looking up your IP.
> >
> > 2) you run a small daemon app call a "dynamic DNS update client" (see:
> > http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/) on your server which monitors
> > your dynamic IP address to see when it changes.  When it does, the
> > client goes and updates the dynamic dns server's records accordingly.
> >
> >
> > Result is that the service's DNS keeps pointing your domain name to your
> > dynamic IP address - even if it changes.
> >
> >
> > There's several services that do this:  zoneedit, dyndns, probably
> > others too.  Both of the ones I mentioned are supposed to be solid from
> > what I've heard.
> >
> > I've used DynDNS personally for years now and I can vouch for them with
> > the ultimate compliment - I don't even know they're there.  They've been
> > completely "set it and forget it" for me.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > DR
> >
> >
> > Paul Robbins wrote:
> > > I know isn't quite a Linux question (though the webserver is running
> > on
> > > Linux), but I thought maybe someone would be able to help me out.
> > >
> > > My firewall at home also has a small webserver running on it. I mainly
> > just
> > > use it to keep family updated about stuff going on with me.  I
> > purchased a
> > > website from GoDaddy, let's call it www.example.com.  I have
> > > www.example.comforwarding to my webserver at home.  It is RoadRunner,
> > > so it is a dynamic IP
> > > address. The flavor of Linux I am running (ClarkConnect) gives me a
> > hostname
> > > (example.pointclark.net).  So I just redirect www.example.com to
> > resolve to
> > > example.pointclark.net.
> > >
> > > The problem is that I either have to change the URL that displays to
> > > example.pointclark.net or mask the URL. If I mask it, it displays
> > > www.example.com no matter where the user navigates (subpages on the
> > site).
> > > Also, I am not sure that google will crawl the www.example.com site if
> > all
> > > it does it redirect to a different URL.  Is there a way to set up
> > > www.example.com as my box at home and give me all of the usefulness
> > that
> > > comes with it?  Do I have to get a static IP address to accomplish
> > this?
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help.
> > >
> > > ~Paul
> >
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