Dynamic DNS Print

  • RaspberryPi, Dynamic DNS, PHP
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We have created the following PHP script for easily running Dynamic DNS on your cPanel account or free DNS account. Simply run the php script on any linux system that has a dynamic public IP. Something like a RaspberryPi would work great.

https://ipxup.com/dyndns.phps (save as .php)


The script has five variables that need to be adjusted.

#1 The url of the cpanel server, you can usually use your domain here.
$dyndnsCpanel = 'https://server.ipxcore.com:2083';

#2 username and password used to login to cpanel
$dyndnsCpanelUser = 'yourcpanelusername';
$dyndnsCpanelPass = 'youcpanelpassword';

#3 the main domain name of the account on cpanel
$dyndnsDomain = 'yourdomain.com';

#4 the record that you would like to update
$hostname = "home.yourdomain.com";


Next you will need to set a cronjob to run the php script on a timed interval. To do this, you will need to note where php is located on your system with the "whereis" command.

root@pi:~# whereis php
php: /usr/bin/php /usr/share/php /usr/share/man/man1/php.1.gz

Also note where the dyndns.php is saved, then create a cronjob  with "crontab -e" as follows:

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /root/dyndns.php 2>&1

The above cron entry will run every five minutes (*/5 * * * *)/usr/bin/php and /root/dyndns.php need to be changed based on your own system locations.

Lastly test to see if the cronjob works.

root@pi:~# /usr/bin/php /root/dyndns.php
nochg 123.123.123.123

Make sure you use the right cPanel username and password. Otherwise you could get yourself blocked. If this happens, you can unblock yourself with these instructions.

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