Publish Network Camera to Web

[21Outlaw]

Here's my dilemma and I think I'm making it tougher than it should be. I bet there's some type of software I can use to do exactly this.

What I'd like to do:
[*]I have a Linksys WVC54G wireless camera with its own IP. By viewing my assigned IP and the associated forwarded port, I can view the camera just fine.
[*]The problem arises whenever Cox assigns me a new IP address. How could I somehow make a web address to redirect to my current IP and correct port?

Extra Info:
[*]The IP on the camera stays the same and the forwarded port also remains the same.
[*]I do have my own domain on the web and would imagine that would play into the solution somehow.

If you have any tips on how to address this issue or more questions concerning my setup, please ask. Thanks All!

 

[JackMDS]

How to connect to a Computer/Server/Network through the Internet

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[21Outlaw]

The only problem I'm running into with these webservers are that they're wanting me to set a default directory as the root directory. I just need an actual Internal IP (to my network, specifically 192.168.1.106 aka 68.229.232.142:1024) to be set as the "root" directory.

How do I accomplish that?

 

[JackMDS]

If port 1024 is opened in your Router toward IP 192.168.1.106

By typing from the Internet 68.229.232.142:1024 it would automatically go to Local IP 192.168.1.106

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[21Outlaw]

But I have a dynamic IP and I want someone who is at a remote location to access that particular address. Since the IP is dynamic it changes every so often and the person at the remote location won't know when it does change and what it has changed to.

Therefore I was wanting to have http://subdomain.silvergsx.net/ (my registered domain) to redirect the user to port 1024 on my currently assigned IP address.

Make sense?

 

[Atheus]

What does your domain currently point to? You can only have it point to one IP... if it is currently pointed to the IP the camera is on, you just have to go subdomain.silvergsx.net:1024 and you will get the camera.

Or, if the domain is pointed to another website somewhere, you could go to http://www.dyndns.com/ and set up another domain for free.

I don't know what you mean by all that root directory stuff, if you set up the camera as a webserver it will take care of all that.

 

[21Outlaw]

I don't even have the subdomain setup yet. I want to know how I can have the subdomain setup to point to myIP address. I want it also to somehow stay "live" and update the redirect address if the IP Cox assigns me changes.

I can't set the camera as the webserver. It only shows up in My Network Places and it is one of those UPnP devices.

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: 21Outlaw
I don't even have the subdomain setup yet. I want to know how I can have the subdomain setup to point to myIP address. I want it also to somehow stay "live" and update the redirect address if the IP Cox assigns me changes.

I can't set the camera as the webserver. It only shows up in My Network Places and it is one of those UPnP devices.

I'm not sure we're on the same wavelength here... you want to view the camera over the web, and the camera does _not_ run a webserver? How do you get the images from it? Is there some custom software?

I see silvergsx.net is hosted by dreamhost and i assume you registered your domain with them too. You will have to ask them about setting up a subdomain to point to your home instead of their servers or, if they don't support dynamic dns, use another registrar who does (like dyndns.com). Dynamic dns works by installing software on your PC which contacts the server every time the IP address changes.

Personally I wouldn't bother with setting up a subdomain, just get a new (free) dynamic domain for the camera.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: 21Outlaw
I don't even have the subdomain setup yet. I want to know how I can have the subdomain setup to point to myIP address. I want it also to somehow stay "live" and update the redirect address if the IP Cox assigns me changes.

Did you bother to read the page that I linked to in my first answer to this thread?

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[nweaver]

setup a dyndns account, and run the dyndns daemon. When your ip changes, the daemon will update dyndns automaticlly

 

[21Outlaw]

After not wanting to go the DynDNS route I did. I then created a subdomain on my domain that's just a redirect to the desired DynDNS address.