Webhop

From WL-HDD Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search
WL-HDD Contents
What is the WL-HDD
Features
Pro's/con's
Reviews
Hacking
Inserting the HDD
Hacking Guides
Basic setup guides
Packages guides
Requests
Troubleshooting
This Wiki
Credits
Editing help
Contact Me

Prerequisites

To complete this guide, the following is assumed:

You are running Oleg's firmware (1.9.2.7-6b or later)
You have harddisk partitions up and running with an extended filesystem mounted to /opt
You have installed the Ipkg package system.
You have configured your partitions to automount.
You need to have completed the DynamicDNS guide and have a dynamic DNS address.
You need to have the THTTPD webserver set up correctly and accessible from WAN.


What is a Webhop

Webhop is a free service provided by dynamicdns.com. It gives you a domain name that when visited in a web browser, redirects your browser to another domain name with an associated port. The other domain name is a DynamicDNS domain name that is updated periodically by your WL-HDD with your latest IP address (dynamic) that your ISP provides. This is useful if your THTTPD webserver does not run on the standard port 80 which is often the case and/or if you do not have a static IP address provided by your ISP.

For example, the address below 

http://wlhdd.webhop.net

Could redirect the web user to 

http://wlhdd.hopto.org:81

Where the wlhdd.hopto.org address is the domain name you set up with http://www.no-ip.com using the DynamicDNS guide.

This is useful if you want to make it easier for people to remember how to get to your website!!

Setting it up

In this setup, it is assumed you used the DynamicDNS guide provided and hence the dynamic DNS service is actually provided by no-ip.com. Only the webhop feature of dyndns.com will be used.

  • First of all, if you are not already registered, register with dyndns.com at http://www.dyndns.com/
  • Under 'services', click on 'Add host services' under the header 'Host level Services'
  • Select 'Add Webhop'
  • Create a new hostname from the options given (this can be anything!)
  • In the redirect URL, type in the address you update your WL-HDD to using the no-ip2 updater service (see DynamicDNS guide) followed by the port number of your web server (eg. 81). 
for example http://wlhdd.hopto.org:81
  • Click add redirection

Now when you visit http://wlhdd.webhop.net, you will be redirected to the webserver providing you have setup port forwarding (see THTTPD_from_WAN).

Retrieved from "http://wlhdd.co.uk/wiki/Webhop"
Personal tools