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Using WAMP with a custom domain?
| Posted by hector2, 01-09-2015, 08:30 PM |
| Hello! I'm new to the forum, so this is my first post!
I am using wamp server to host some files on my pc, is it possible to use wamp with a custom domain??
Thank you!
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| Posted by net, 01-09-2015, 08:33 PM |
| Moved > Hosting Security and Technology.
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| Posted by hector2, 01-09-2015, 08:37 PM |
| Thanx, sorry about that, was unsure
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| Posted by Andei, 01-09-2015, 08:38 PM |
| First off, welcome to WHT
Secondly, it's not advised to host pretty much anything on your home PC, let alone a website, few of the reasons being: inconsistent power & internet access, slow upload speed, and power prices.
Lastly, if you really wish to do it anyway, once you setup wamp on your PC and open/forward ports in your router if needed, you could simply park your domain on a free DNS Management, such as CloudFlare, (your domain registrar is probably offering free DNS Management as well)... then create an A record for your domain to point to your PC's IP address. If your IP address is dynamic, yet another reason why you shouldn't host anything on a home server, you would need to setup some sort of dynamic DNS such as no-ip.
Hope this helps, and again, really not advised to do it.
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| Posted by hector2, 01-09-2015, 08:43 PM |
| Thanx for the warm welcome
Hm right, that helps a lot, seems simple enough! Ill give it a go
Th reason for hosting on my home pc is because its just a private site between me and a friend, it doesn't always have to be up.. too much to explain really but I have no need for them to be on a host and I was just curious
Thank you!
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