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| mlehman0@gmail.com 2005-05-30, 5:57 pm |
| Hi, I installed Apache2 on my Debian Server and I have been using it to
host my webpage. Obviously without a domain name, viewers would have to
enter my IP address in their browsers to view it. So I decided to get
a domain name registered. I paid netfirms.com to do this for me.
Included with this $4.95/year fee, they have given me 25 MB of
ad-supported hosting for "free". This kind of defeats the purpose of
having my own webserver, so I made an index.html file on there that
forwards to my server's IP address.
However, this was really a temporary fix until I find out how to
actually forward my URL to my webserver without letting the viewers see
an IP address. If anyone could tell me how to do this I would be
greatly appreciative! Thanks in advance guys!
Mike
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| William Tasso 2005-05-30, 5:57 pm |
| <mlehman0@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I installed Apache2 on my Debian Server and I have been using it to
> host my webpage. Obviously without a domain name, viewers would have to
> enter my IP address in their browsers to view it. So I decided to get
> a domain name registered. I paid netfirms.com to do this for me.
>
> Included with this $4.95/year fee, they have given me 25 MB of
> ad-supported hosting for "free". This kind of defeats the purpose of
> having my own webserver, so I made an index.html file on there that
> forwards to my server's IP address.
>
> However, this was really a temporary fix until I find out how to
> actually forward my URL to my webserver without letting the viewers see
> an IP address. If anyone could tell me how to do this I would be
> greatly appreciative! Thanks in advance guys!
Never used netfirms but you should have a control panel of sorts where you
can do one of two things ...
either: point the domain at your ip-address
or: configure alternative name servers
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William Tasso
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| mlehman0@gmail.com 2005-05-31, 6:16 pm |
| By configuring alternate NS's how do I do that? Do I just tell it to
go to my server's IP address? I do not have a name server.
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| On 31 May 2005 13:49:14 -0700,
mlehman0@gmail.com posted:
> By configuring alternate NS's how do I do that? Do I just tell it to
> go to my server's IP address? I do not have a name server.
Well, I'd do it by configuring my DNS records with the DNS server used when
I registered my domain name, to point those records at the IP I want use
with my domain name, rather than whatever they set it as. i.e. Configure
*their* nameserver.
Unfortunately some cheap registrars don't work properly, and won't let you
do that. You can find another DNS server, delegate your records over to it
instead of the registrar's (or webhosts, depending on how you went about
registering and setting up, in the first place), and configure that one.
Look at the help guides for where you registered your domain name, and if
you don't find it any good, have a look at some other DNS servers. I can't
recommend one, I haven't had to do it that way, you'll have to search
around for yourself.
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