accessing an elgg site from localhost and from the web?

i have been attempting to get my local/development elgg site to be accessible via the web and also from my localhost.. but its not so easy..

i think this is because the path to the site is stored in the database (site_entity - from memory).. 

so it can either be set to 'localhost' or to an externally accessible URL..

if its set to localhost the site doesn't function when accessed externally due to the links.

and when its set to an externally accessible url i can't view it via localhost (or externally due to the way i have the external access setup - its on a dynamic ip and so i have had to use dyndns.org - where the source and destination addresses can't be the same).

 

i don't have much experience with server configuration.. has anyone done this before? is there a simple solution?

(i'm using ubuntu 10.10)

thanks

  • I have a local test site running via dyndns.com and it works to access it both from the same computer it runs on and also from other computers without problems. The Elgg site is set up with the dyndns domain name. Can you access your site via dyndns from other computers?