Installing MyChat server on a dynamic IP address | All articles |
How to run the server MyChat, to him it was possible to connect via the Internet, if you do not have a dedicated static IP address?
2. I want to install chat server that can connect to me from the Internet!
4. Install MyChat Server on your computer
6. Installation-synchronizer to work with No-IP
8. Summary
1. What is IP address?
In simple words - is a special number, which is given by the computer so that it can communicate with other computers around the world via the Internet, something like a passport number or postal address.
Because to have a permanent IP address on the Internet can not everyone, the majority of computers connecting to the network, get such an address dynamically, every time - different.
2. I want to install chat server that can connect to me from the Internet!
Most users who use MyChat, asking the same question: "How do I get to my server able to connect users from the Internet?".
The standard answer - to make this possible, the necessary external IP address.
Typically, all users who connect to the network via ADSL, cable, telephone lines, mobile phones and so on, have a dynamic IP address. There are, of course, exceptions - when the computer is behind a NAT or proxy: if the Internet through one IP address leaves a host of other computers. In this case, set the server on a computer does not make any sense.
3. Find self IP address
Consider the case where a dynamic IP and is visible from the Internet. Check out this easy. Launch the browser, enter in the address bar http://network-tools.com/
Choose the radio button "Ping" and click "GO!".
95.132.194.21 - this is our IP address (you do it will be different).
You should see something like this:
If instead of this text, you will see the lines "Timed out" - from the server installation, visible from the Internet, will have to give.
4. Install MyChat Server on your computer
Now that you found that your IP address is accessible from the outside, you can run the chat server on your computer.
Download distribution server and install it. The installation procedure in detail and with commentary described in the artile – "How to install chat in local network".
5. Service No-IP
Here lies a very important point. As you connect to your ISP each time get a new IP address, an IM client that will connect to your server MyChat will have to enter each time in her new setting and a new IP address.
This is inconvenient and incorrect. How do I get around this?
Go to site http://www.no-ip.com, and register there:
Then fill in all required fields:
And click "I Accept, Create my Account".
After that, we say that all is well and must be activated to create an account by simply clicking on the link that is in the letter that was sent to our e-mail address:
Now look at the Inbox in your e-mail, must be a letter with the following contents:
We click on the link. After you go in the already created an account on the website and click the icon "Add a Host":
A window appears in which you want to choose a name for your domain, which will connect people to MyChat server via the Internet.
Instead mychat1 write what you want. In this example, the domain name will be mychat1.no-ip.biz. If the name is not taken, then this record will appear in your account.
6. Installation-synchronizer to work with No-IP
Once you have added a domain, you need to download a special program that will automatically synchronize with the site no-ip.com and to put them in their database your IP address. In order for the IM clients that connect to your server know that the changed IP address. All this will happen automatically, so you do not even have to do anything, the program itself will do.
Select your operating system (Windows):
And download client:
This is a small program, only about 668 kilobytes. Run distribution and install it:
Программа предупреждает, чтобы Вы не отключались от Интернета, пока она будет устанавливаться и настраиваться. Соглашаемся и жмём ”Next”.
We remove crows from "Vew Readme" and "View Changes", this is unlikely to need now and continue:
Installing No-IP is completed.
After you click "Finish" will be shown saver program and settings, a window will appear:
These need to enter your email address and password, which you selected at the beginning of the registration service in No-IP. Enter data and click "Ok".
Then, if you are entering it correctly, this window will appear here:
Everything, now the program works and your IP address is automatically synchronized.
7. Customize MyChat Client
Once the server is running and will run the program, synchronizer, you can customize the chat clients. To connect to the server is enough to register in the server configuration mychat1.no-ip.biz (or more precisely - the name that you chose for yourself). So, you tell the client not to connect to a specific IP address, and on the domain name server, which you identify the service No-IP. A concern to change the IP address itself takes this service.
All configuration is fully completed, and customers can connect to your server through the Internet, despite the fact that you have a dynamic IP address.
8. Summary
And finally, summing up described above, it should be noted that this technology is applicable not only to MyChat, but also to any other software product, which works through the Internet.
Server is installed on a computer with a dynamic IP address, the program-synchronizer DNS name automatically notifies the No-IP service on a possible change of address, and customers calmly connected to the wrong address, and on the domain name.
Service No-IP can provide up to five free domain names for a single account.
Scheme of the article's author tested and works perfectly.
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