JaphWeb developer, technologist, innovator. I love the internet.

I’ve setup my home network with a domain and wanted to be able to access my home server, from my office, on a subdomain.

However, as is probably the case for most of you, I have a dynamic IP address assigned to my router when it connects to the Internet through my ISP. So I decided I’d have to setup my own dynamic DNS process!

First things first, it was necessary to create the subdomain I wanted and point it to my home router’s external IP address, and also to change the configuration on my router to forward all traffic on port 80 to my home server’s internal IP address.
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After seeing quite a few websites with dynamic content based on the domain name, I wanted to give it a try to see how difficult it was to achieve.

Here’s what I came up with: DueABootin.com

As it turns out, it wasn’t very difficult at all!  (Especially being hosted through WebFaction, they make it even easier!)
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