prodarwin:
Greetings all.
I’ve installed DietPi, have it up and running with a LLSP webserver. My question is now, how do I point this to my domain? I have a domain& dynamic DNS from Namecheap.
In the past I’ve used ddclient to do this. I’m guessing I can install it on this pretty easily. If so, how do I then configure it so the service starts automatically when the system is rebooted?
Also, once I get that working, what’s the recommended method to allow me to access this from outside my home network?
Port forward 80 to 80
Then I can access by just trying to ftp to mydomain.com :xxxxx?
Do I need to setup a certain username/password to do this? Is allowing the root user to do this a bad thing (I see this is disabled on other images I’ve messed around with)? If I do need a user created to access from the outside, how do I ensure they can access the /var/www directory? I’ve had huge problems with this in the past with ArkOS (even locally).
All I really want to do is a simple html webserver, and allow myself to easily upload/change files remotely.
Maybe your router can do what DDclient does? Many can. And the steps above should work OK, I do the same here. Have a look at owncloud for uploading files to your device.
Maybe think about changing the SSH port from 22 to another for better security.