© Christos Karayiannis 2019
Christos KarayiannisWeb-Based Projects that Rock the Classhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4463-0_4

4. Obtaining a Domain Name with DDNS

Christos Karayiannis1 
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Karditsa, Thessaloniki, Greece
 
In the previous chapter, your site passed the borders of your LAN and became available to the whole Internet. URLs that were not exactly user-friendly like the following were used:
http://94.64.2.196:8080/

In this chapter, you will learn how to use the Dynamic DNS (DDNS) service to obtain and use a domain name for your site; for example, you can use webtoolsonline.servehttp.com instead of an IP address in the URL.

With a proper URL for your site, you can set up PHP to interface with the Linux shell and use an online service like ...

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