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1. meelow
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Hi,

   I have server and it has a dynamic ip address. I noticed that there's a bunch of things to do after my ip changes, and it will happen when I must restart my server. Now it my blog shows right only from the text part, all formatting is gone, from wp-admin panel too.

   I have done the following from the http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
   Edit wp-config.php
   Changing the URL directly in the database

   If I do the all steps I might get it work again without more hassle who knows, but I'd like to know your opinion, does it make any sense to have wordpress installed if ip changes? It requires every time to be configured again.

2. alism
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   You can use dynamic dns:
   http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/wordpress_quick_guide.html

3. ClaytonJames
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   I have been using dyndns successfully on a home server with WordPress for a long time. No problems at all. Get a dyndns domain name, change the blog addresses in your dashboard to reflect that name, install the updater utility on one of the machines on your home network (or it may already be available as a service in your router) and make sure to port forward to your servers internal ip address. That's it. Just a heads up, If you use the free dyndns account, it no longer supports wildcarding.

4. meelow
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Hi,

   thanks for your answer. I have tried to configure (install-uninstall many times), but I just can't get it work. I'm quite new with this Apache-Mysql-Wordpress configuration stuff, and can install WP successfully, but when I supposed to it to use my dyndns address, whole thing becomes messy.

   Things that are unclear:

   1. When I enter my address www.example.com to address bar, I get the index.html from /var/www. Now even I configure apache documentroot from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default to:
   DocumentRoot /var/www/wordpress
   (this is where my wordpress is installed), www.example.com still shows index.html from /var/www.

   2. When I have had WP set up, and go to settings from wp-admin panel, what should I put to url and blog address?

   I'm quite confused and every bit of help is welcome :)

5. meelow
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   And I downloaded and installed/created dyndns domain and ip updater.

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