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DJSweetness
DJSweetness

Reputation: 153

Setting domain name for ip address on pi (Apache, DHCP)

I set up my pi to broadcast it's own "wifi" and I have an Apache server running on it.

I used this tutorial https://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-wifi-access-point

I can currently connect to the network that the pi is broadcasting and go to the ip of the server on my phone and it brings up the webpage, but I want to be able to type in "mydomain.net" and have it bring me to the webpage. Can anyone help me with this or suggest anything?

I want anyone that wants to connect to this local wifi (not worldwide) to be able to enter the website so changing everyone's host file is not going to happen.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 793

Answers (1)

Sufiyan Ghori
Sufiyan Ghori

Reputation: 18753

you can modify /etc/hosts file on your local machine to point the custom domain name to the IP address of the environment you want to test. The /etc/hosts file contains a mapping of IP addresses to URLs.

Your browser uses entries in the /etc/hosts file to override the IP-address-to-URL mapping returned by a DNS server.

This is only useful for testing DNS (domain name system) changes and the SSL configuration before making a website live.

Upvotes: 1

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