Plesk on qnap nas and IP issues
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themasterofthathing · 2023-10-18 14:57

Hi , I am experimenting with plesk self hosted in my qnap nas , I have
a domain name but I have an issue to create a personal dns to point it
to my IP as the host technicians says I need a public IP address ? Are
they meaning dedicated IP address ? Thanks 👍

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korsarnsk · 2023-10-18 18:29

It depends on that you want to get finally.
1.If you want just to create a website with the domain name you
already have,and access the site only you, I then you create it in
Plesk, go to DNS settings look for A type record and get IP address.
Then go to hosts file on your laptop (use google get instruction how
to edit it on your OS) and simply bind the domain with the IP for your
laptop. There is only one pre-requisite - the  server with Plesk
should be in the same local network as your laptop is, or the IP
address should be accessible from public internet.   Keep in mind that
propagation of DNS zone change can take from several minutes till 24h.

If you look attentively to the Plesk diagnosis message in its UI, it
will guide you how to update DNS properly to have your domain make
resolvable to IP on your server.

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themasterofthathing · 2023-10-20 10:35

Thanks for your detailed response , I have sort it out , I think the
dns took so long to process , finally it worked , I am not planning to
keep the server running as I think it will be risky to open and
forward port through the router and to my nas , it was all a sweet
experiment for now , that's the Vm off for now . Thank you .