no-ip.org and WHMCS

[komir]

Hi, I use a setup of .htaccess for the admin area.

 

I had setup an account with no-ip.org, to setup a "static" IP address. But when adding that to the .htaccess file, it doesn't allow access.

I added

 

order deny,allow

deny from all

allow from myusername.no-ip.biz

 

When rep0lace myusername.no-ip.biz with my temporary IP everything is working

 

Thank you for your help

[RadWebHosting]

You may want to check your Apache version. Apache 2.4 is no longer using those directives.

 

order deny,allow

deny from all

allow from myusername.no-ip.biz

 

should be

 

Require host myusername.no-ip.biz

 

in Apache 2.4+

[yggdrasil]

It is called DNS propagation. You don't really have a dedicated IP. That service just resolves your dynamic IP to a hostname. Depending on how much it takes, your server is probably not seeing the same IP than no-ip and it may take a few minutes to a few hours. That is absolutely horrible and you should not use it from a security point of view. Someone could spoof your domain name to any IP they want and they will have access. You should really use a fixed IP if you plan to do this for security reasons and not something like no-ip.

[komir]

It is called DNS propagation. You don't really have a dedicated IP. That service just resolves your dynamic IP to a hostname. Depending on how much it takes, your server is probably not seeing the same IP than no-ip and it may take a few minutes to a few hours. That is absolutely horrible and you should not use it from a security point of view. Someone could spoof your domain name to any IP they want and they will have access. You should really use a fixed IP if you plan to do this for security reasons and not something like no-ip.

 

Thank you.