Hosting your website at home

Posted: May 29th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: web | 2 Comments »

This is how I’ve set it up:

I have a FreeBSD server at home running lighttpd webserver which hosts this website. I am using DynDns.org’s free service (a big thanks to them) to take care of my ever (not!) changing non-static ip address from my internet service provider. Obviously, http port 80 is forwarded on my router to make my site available to the web. I had to add CNAME record of my domain’s (www.strugglingcoder.info) DNS to make it point to my dyndns name – which in turn is pointing to my home ip and that is how one can reach my website.

Only thing which sucks is that I need to use proxy servers to access my website when I am inside my home network. Else it points me to my router login. That is probably because how port-forwarding works. It does not work well within the network.

I am using wordpress (thanks again!) as my blogging engine.


2 Comments on “Hosting your website at home”

  1. 1 webinger said at 6:29 pm on May 29th, 2012:

    great article. very helpful. thanks!

  2. 2 Accessing hosted website within the home network | random rants said at 7:39 pm on June 2nd, 2012:

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