gtrabanco/dynhost repository overview

⁠Important 2021 Update

Do not know if this program still fork I did not use it for a long time if you are interested in this client and does not work you can do a PR or open a Issue in Github. Sorry.

⁠Node-DynHost

⁠Important

In 0.3.7 you will need new kind of access to the api if you are trying to use the new option "--regulardns" so do not forget to generate a new access if you're experimenting problems. View man dynhost for more help.

⁠Requirements

Tested under node v. 5.10.1 under Mac OS X 10.11.5 A valid app token on Ovh API see: Cretate Token⁠

ADVICE: If you have created an app instead of token, you must go next step to generate a "Consumer Key".

⁠The Token

You can generate a new consumer key (needed to make api calls) with the permissions you need to run with program just adding --credentials param. This will give you a JSON with an url that you may copy and paste in your browser and validate manually and copy/paste the "Consumer Key" to your .env file.

⁠Getting the app

You can get this little app from github⁠ or through the npm⁠.

To get the app and run it with npm you should exec:

$ npm install -g dynhost

⁠Runing the app

First of all you need to run npm install if you have it downloaded directly from GitHub.

After that modify .env-dist with the values of the app token and save it as .env in the dir where you will exec dynhost command line program or your home (~) path. Anyway, you will be able to choose your .env file with some cli program params.

The app was though to run with the command

# dynhost --zone example.com --subdomain mydynamicserver

To run with your own configuration file whatever you store it use:

# dynhost --env /path/to/my/.env --zone example.com --subdomain mydynamicserver

For more information about the usage run:

# dynhost -h

You should consider run it as cronjob every 5 minute (for example) its ok:

First of all if you have more crontab jobs you must do:

$ crontab -l > mycronjobs

NOTE: if you do not know if you have exec first:

$ crontab -l

You should read "crontab: no crontab for" and your computer/server `username.

$ echo "*/5 * * * * `which dynhost` --zone example.com --subdomain mydynamicserver > /dev/null" >> mycronjobs
$ crontab mycronjobs

To delete the crontab job just exec

$ crontab -e

And delete the line of the crontab you do not want to exec anymore.

⁠License

See LICENSE.md file

⁠Author

Gabriel Trabanco

Website⁠

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