Thanks Joe. That was my first thought, but I only own two domains, and the other is tied to a paid-for hosting service until 2024. In other words, I only have access to one domain for this project. And I’m unemployed ATM, unfortunately, so new domains are not possible right now. So, it would seem my only options are a subdomain, localhost, or a new, dedicated IP, is that correct?
I can definitely rejig things a bit and move this staging/dev area from the VirtualMin box to the computer I actually use for dev work, that’s possible, per your last point.
But in all these cases, I’m not sure how to perform the creation and administration of such via VirtualMin/WebMin. So, out of my apparent options, how would you navigate through VirtualMin to create a dev area on a different LAN machine with (your preferred choice of) localhost, an IP (i.e. 10.0.0.100), or a subdomain (i.e., dev.mydom.com)?
Any reading below this point is not necessary as regards my question, so ignore if you wish:)
This is also a great idea. I am about to start building new versions of my site, repurposed for other uses (e.g., as a drop-in intranet package or a db-driven website “shell”), so using subdomains as a way of showing interested parties a particular variation is an excellent idea.
I definitely need to do some due diligence now, as I have so far done nothing to shape/protect my website area or my LAN re: how the outside world interacts with my assets, save trusting WebMin to configure firewalld
, and allowing only specific ports and services with ufw
on the other boxes. Once again, getting back to Joe’s Samba
concern from way-back, I still have no idea exactly “who” has access to my Samba
shares after allowing it through firewalld
, and under Webmin>Servers>Samba Windows File Sharing
I’ve not yet had a chance to explore my options.
I have a backup/snapshot of VirtualMin (everything except the public_html
folder and /var/lib/mysql
) plus full TimeShift
backups of my entire LAN created at exactly the same point, both in time and in functionality as regards each box’s firewalld
(or ufw
) config for Samba
and Remmina
). But I just don’t feel like winging it right now, after all the work I’ve done to get things purring nicely finally, so I am deferring to the experts here…