On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 09:43, Charles Philip Chan
Roger Luedecke
I wanted to set up OwnCloud for a client since it would fulfill his needs. He has a dedicated desktop system (running 11.4 that I set up) that sees only light use, and should be able to host OwnCloud. I am not terribly familiar with web technologies, and wonder if I would have to link it to an external domain somehow since it doesn't have a static IP.
You don't need to purchase a domain- you can use a dynamic DNS service such as:
1. no-ip: http://www.no-ip.com/ 2. dyndns: http://dyn.com/dns/
in conjunction with the ddclient package.
Big upvote for DynDNS. I've been using their services for years now - and currently use it in combination with a local webserver and OwnCloud. OwnCloud is easy to set up and really really useful. It's worth noting that they (DynDNS) only have a 14 day trial, and after that the cheapest service they offer is $20US/year. A couple tips on this... - many routers will already have a preconfigured option for using a service like DynDNS. My Netgear router for example has a menu option for "Dynamic DNS" In there, I can set up the DynDNS settings and I don't need to run ddclient on my local machine if I don't want to. - If you don't want to go with the router option, you can easily set up ddclient with the tools on the DynDNS website. They will autogenerate the ddclient.conf file that you need, and you just copy it over top of the existing generic ddclient.conf that you get when ddclient is installed with YaST/zypper.... start the ddclient service and you're done. I can't speak for no-ip.com... never used their stuff. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org