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I have a Windows Home Server 2011 set up that runs my various Usenet/Torrent program webUIs. What I'd like to know is whether or not I can use a domain name to allow me to access them when I am away from home. My ISP doesn't hand out static IP addresses, but they do have them fixed so they only ever change if something drastic changes.
I imagine it would be something like: www.example.com/sabnzbd/ or www.sabnzbd.example.com.
Is this possible, and if it is what do I need to learn or research in order to achieve this?
Michael Frank
Posted 2012-09-28T05:53:33.833
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How do I then go about having it linked to the internal IP of my webUI? For example: http://192.168.1.1:8000.
– Michael Frank – 2012-09-28T10:09:59.437I updated my answer to bring some more precisions. I hope it answers your question. – m4573r – 2012-09-28T10:14:06.830
It answered it perfectly. I already had a No-IP account from another experiment, but completely forgot about it. I could use a paid domain with this service, yes? – Michael Frank – 2012-09-28T10:20:46.660
Definitely. And if you're ready to pay, you can also look at other services, like DynDNS for instance, and probably a lot of others, but for your simple case I think the free service is enough. – m4573r – 2012-09-28T10:22:37.580
Okay, one last question. Typing in my *.no-ip.org address takes me directly to my routers admin login page. How do I prevent this, or redirect it to something else? – Michael Frank – 2012-09-28T10:26:02.547
Yes. You need either to redirect (through the router) port 80 to your locale machine if you have a webserver you want to access on it, or to change the port on which your web interface works (however it's not possible with all routers). On some routers, you also have the option to either block the web interface from the WAN, or to protect it with a login/password. – m4573r – 2012-09-28T10:33:32.860
let us continue this discussion in chat
– Michael Frank – 2012-09-28T10:36:25.573