El Jue 11 Jun 2009 14:40:27 Nicolás Alvarez escribió:
> El Jue 11 Jun 2009 14:15:21 Jeremy Cowles escribió:
> > I created a project with an internal IP address (192.x.x.x) and now I
> > want to test it with clients out on the internet. So I've changed the
> > address to my public address (78.x.x.x) in project.xml and recreated the
> > apps (xadd, update versions).
> > Now clients can attach to the project using the public address, but they
> > fail to receive workunits. When I turn on more detailed logging on the
> > client, I continue to see the 192.x.x.x address, even though it says that
> > the main URL is 78.x.x.x (on the client).
> >
> > Is there something I need to do to reset the client or the project? I
> > cant find instances of 192.x.x.x in any of the configuration.
>
> Changing a project master URL is not a trivial task. It's recommended that
> projects avoid keeping things prone to change in their project URLs, like
> using an IP address, or even putting the university they are in as part of
> the hostname (dock...@home had to change the URL twice or so because they
> changed university / organization / department / something). Thus, the best
> way is having a domain name just for that project. Good URLs don't change.
>
> Even having multiple projects as boinc.example.org/project1 and
> boinc.example.org/project2 may be problematic if you eventually decide you
> want to move project2 to a different server. It's best to have
> project1.example.org and project2.example.org so they can (now or in the
> future) have different IP addresses.
>
> All that said, here is how you change a project URL:
>
> [...]
>
> [to be cleaned up and posted on the wiki]

I *finally* got round to putting these instructions on the wiki.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ChangingMasterUrl

David: I'll leave it to you to add a link to this new page in an appropriate 
place.

-- 
Nicolas
...crossing off item in to-do list.
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