Running Wikidot on a Home Network
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Running Wikidot on a Home Network
Ed JohnsonEd Johnson 1202148929|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks to Michal's help, I have successfully installed Wikidot on a server at home. However, I'm still having problems hitting my Wikidot site from other PCs in my home network. I think it might be some kind of DNS issue. When I run Firefox on the Wikidot server, I can find Wikidot at www.dawiki (no ".com" per Michal's instructions - my server name is "dawiki"). The other PCs on my network can not find it through that URL. If I use the IP address of my server (192.168.0.108), I get the dreaded "The site does not exist." page.

Do I need to change something on the Ubuntu/Wikidot server or change settings on my Windows PCs or is it something else? Once I get this all working, I'll document all the fun I'm having for the rest of you! ;)

-Ed

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Re: Running Wikidot on a Home Network
GabrysGabrys 1202376822|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi Ed,

You need to instruct your home machines, that *.dawiki is 192.168.0.108. You can do it either by adding a proper line to /etc/hosts (in windows somewhere under c:/windows) or by adding such entries to your DNS server (possibly a router or something like this) or by setting up a fresh DNS server (possibly pdnsd — it reads /etc/hosts of the machine it runs and serves it to all clients that connects to it) and adding the new server to DNS servers used by workstation (/etc/resolv.conf in Unix or Linux).

Hope it helps, if you have some further questions, feel free to ask. I would be grateful if you manage to complete the task and write a complete HOWTO on it.

Hint: pdnsd acts as a proxying/relaying DNS server as well, so you can set any working for you DNS-es to the machine with wikidot. Add some entries do /etc/hosts on it and then use ONLY a wikidot machine (192.168.0.108) as a DNS server (this setting may be set with DHCP) for any machine inside your Home Network.

Piotr Gabryjeluk
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