Re: [Phpgroupware-users] problem getting phpwebhosting to work properly

[Dave Hall]

Daniel Díaz <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> 
> SI Reasoning wrote:
> [...]
> > I worked with Dave on IRC and made some progress but also ran 
> across some
> > issues:
> > 
> > it requires a specific domain name created in configuration setup.
> > This resolved the problem I mentioned here (although there are 
> still many
> > problems we have not resolved yet...later in this email...)
> > Having to choose a domain name causes us some problems here. If 
> we choose the
> > domain name of the local server it works fine on the local lan 
> but refuses
> > entry remotely (where we have a firewall/nat setup with port 80 
> forwarded).> If we use the internet ip address, then it will not 
> work locally (some
> > weirdness when a local computer is sent through the nat, and 
> then back into
> > the nat and then forwarded. It doesn't work in many situations, 
> including> this one.
> [...]
> 
> 
> I think of a trick to walk over this one: Create an entry in your 
> LAN's DNS
> server for your domain name pointing to your intranet's IP address.
> So, if you have phpgwserver.mydomain.net, insert an A resource 
> record in a new
> mydomain.net zone:
> phpgwserver   A       192.168.1.100           ;or whatever IP
>                        ;the server uses
> 
> 
> This way, you get to connect from the Internet and from your intranet!
> 

Yes this is what i suggested, even using dyndns ... but he doesn't want
to do that.  I think this is the easiest way to fix it but ....???


As most of the other apps allow this i will try to work out why phpwh
doesn't allow it.

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