Thanks for your response -- but wouldn't that work only if I'm accessing the hostname from the server itself? In my case, I don't actually use the server for anything except, well, serving. So I need to be able to do something like this for all the computers in the house. Is this possible?
On May 23, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Alex Deva wrote: > Hi Eamon, > > A workaround -- which works if your public IP also has a hostname -- > is to use that hostname instead of the public IP, when not from home; > then, in your /etc/hosts file (or wherever Windows keeps the > equivalent file these days) you add an entry like this: > > 127.0.0.1 insert-public-hostname-here > > What this does is: it overwrites your machine's default use of DNS > when looking up that particular hostname, and instead always goes to > localhost for it. > > And then you configure the blog absolute URL: > > http://insert-public-hostname-here/ > > If you don't have a hostname and don't want to buy an entire domain > for your public IP, ask someone to lend you a subdomain. That's free > and easy. But normally your ISP should assign you a hostname too, > with that public IP. > > alxx > > On May 24, 2007, at 5:51 AM, Eamon Ford wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I'm running Typo 4.1.1 on my own server, but because of my modem >> (Actiontec is really bad), I have to access my blog using the private >> IP address of the server if I'm behind the modem, and my public IP >> address from anywhere else. Normally this wouldn't be so much of a >> problem, except for this fact: when I set the "Blog URL" on the Typo >> admin page to be the private IP, nobody who isn't behind my modem can >> access the links. But if I set it to be my external IP, I can't >> access the links from behind my modem. >> So my question is, can I set the Blog URL to a relative url, and if >> so, how? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> _______________________________________________ >> Typo-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
