Site switched dns service from Everydns.com to FreeDNS. Both are good DNS service provider for those who are running their website at home with a dynamic IP.
I’m just trying out different DNS service and see for myself what’s best.
I just recently registered my own domain (check out the URL address bar on your browser) at PlogHost.com and have to setup all the links from my recent free sub-domain provided by dynDNS.comand it was tiring but have gained knowledge on setting up my home based blogsite on my own domain name with a dynamic IP which is pointed to by everyDNS.com. I like learning this kind of things. I’ll try to post some notes on what I did or how I set it up so I wont forget it when I change my operating system to Windows 7 when it comes out.
Alright, that was really frustrating just setting up wordpress but luckily I got it working now. Phew!
I’m using Apache server 2.2.13 and PHP 5.3. Made lots of tinkering before I managed to have it working properly. Installed it fine but viewing posts or visiting the blog site gives me a blank page. It seems that it doesn’t read the index.php in the wordpress folder. What I did was I tried to add “index.php” in the line
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</IfModule>
of the Apache httpd.conf file and also removed the ‘#’ or comment character in
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so for the permalink to work, and also adjusted the custom structure to start with /index.php/ then restarted the server and there… it worked. But I’m not sure if this is really what fixed it or got it working. I may try to reproduce that scenario just to be sure but not now. I’m gonna try to learn all this wordpress stuff first.
And maybe when I’m confident enough with what I’ve learned, I’m gonna buy myself my own real domain and implement it in the realtime. Well I’m actually testing this realtime right now but only on a free subdomain at dyndns.com in my home pc which means there is a high chance that the URL address or subdomain maybe dropped anytime.