OT: Rails and DDNS

[Ralph Shnelvar]

Ruby on Rails Talk,

So I have an ASUS TM-AC1900 router that offers DDNS (Dynamic DNS).

I have a Rails app (call it some-old-app) and a domain (call it some-old-app.com) and got it working with the ASUS router and its DDNS so that when a user invoked
 https://www.some-old-app.com/something
everything worked.



Basically, in my SpiritDomains (SpiritDomains is my ISP) control panel, I set things up so that some-old-app.com forwards requests to some-old-app.asuscomm.com.

(*.asuscomm.com is a free service provided by ASUS and it provides DDNS services for their TM-AC1900 router.)

Sadly, I didn't take enough notes so I could figure out how I got the ASUS DDNS service to work with https://www.some-old-app.com/something


Fortunately, I backed up everything including my router settings.  I have no problems when restoring my router and when I do, my https://www.some-old-app.com/something works just fine.

I now have a new domain: www.some-new-app.com.  

When I modify
 1) my SpiritDomains settings so that it forwards some-new-app.com to some-new-app.asuscomm.com, and
 2) my router settings so that some-new-app.asuscomm.com is registered with ASUS
then when I attempt to do a www.some-new-app.com/something my browser says that www.some-old-app.com can't be found.

Please note, I waited several hours before issuing www.some-new-app.com/something just in case there was an issue about DNS propagation.


I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get https://www.some-new-app.com/something to work.  I no longer need some-old-app.com so the router's limitation of only one DDNS service does not matter to me.


Does anyone have knowledge of a DDNS service (it doesn't have to be free) with complete instructions on how to hook up a Rails app so that a user can invoke https://www.some-new-app.com/something without having to specify https://www.some-new-app.Some-DDNS-Service.com/something

Does anyone have experience with the free dynu.com service?  Does it slow things down appreciably?  Are there any downsides to using it?

Of course, if you have the answer to how to get the ASUS router to work, that would be even better.


Ralph Shnelvar

[Mike]

Not sure I understand all of this but

As long as you can send some-new-app.com to your IP address and some-old-app.com to the same address it should not be a problem

You could use a CNAME record to forward both of these to myrouter.asuscomm.com which is your actual device

Once it gets there I assume you forward the traffic to your web host where it should still be receiving requests (Host: headers) for some-old-app.com and some-new-app.com.

Then your web server should be directing the traffic to the correct rails app

It’s a bit difficult to diagnose without more information but hopefully this is a pointer

[Piyush Chowhan]

Sorry wrongly posted