I think I gave my Bubba the wrong IP-number

Paul Peters · Post by **Paul Peters** » 11 Apr 2008, 02:22

Good morning people,

I think I gave my Bubba the wrong IP, I started connecting the Bubba to my freshly installed router (and my XP computer) and all went swimingly, http://bubba showed the beautiful promised edit screen.

At one edit-page I came to what I thought were web server modifications (where they?) en there I put my IP-adres I got from my service provider and there it all stopped ...

Aren't I suppose to put the IP that I want the web server to be in the Apache config file?

I suspect that my computer and the Bubba have the same IP and ar confused who is who.

So now I can't reach http://bubba/ anymore (sometimes it even goes to bubba.com!) neither in the Windows explorer.

I tried directly connecting the Bubba to my computer, not really sure how, was I suppose to connect it with the little short black cable to the network card that formerly held the router cable? (and before I had that, the modem cable) And I did the IP-adres change recommended in the user manual. but 192.168.0.242 didn't connect to nothing.

Does anybody have any thought on this problem?

I wouldn't mind restarting, clearing the Bubba (there is nothing on it yet) and the whole thing and start anew, but I don't know how ...

Eek · Post by **Eek** » 11 Apr 2008, 04:52

Hi

try the minimal install image to change the ip address.
http://forum.excito.net//viewtopic.php?t=524

Login using ssh
mount your hard disk and
change the ip in the file /etc/networking/interfaces

cheers
Eek

ian · Post by **ian** » 11 Apr 2008, 05:04

If you think that your computer has the same IP address as the bubba, why not try changing the IP address of your computer before doing anything else, in case that solves the problem.

Paul Peters · Post by **Paul Peters** » 11 Apr 2008, 07:36

Thank you Eek, I will keep that in mind for future mess ups ...

But ian's beautiful pragmatic solution actually worked. There she was again, the sweet little Bubba prancing around with my static IP adres.

I changed it as per instructions, she was a litte sad, but ... (okay, P2 stop it!)

I am not there yet, my IP goes now to my routers configuration page and if I go to the IP I have given to Bubba I don't have access to it, it is forbidden, apparently by the apache server on the Bubba ...

any ideas are very welcome.

I read the following little snippet of information:
make sure NetBios over TCPIP is enabled in this excito-forum topic was very usefull to me.

Cheeseboy · Post by **Cheeseboy** » 11 Apr 2008, 12:31

Hi Paul,

If I remember correctly, I did not have to specify the external IP anywhere on the bubba. The router has the external IP, and then I configured the router to forward the relevant ports (all of them in my case) to bubbas internal IP address.

The bubba gets it IP address from DHCP, which is handled by my router.
To keep things simple, I configured the router so it always gives the same IP to Bubba. I choose 192.168.0.50 because that's what it is on the resque image.

Cheers,

Cheeseboy

Paul Peters · Post by **Paul Peters** » 22 Apr 2008, 05:32

Hello cheeseboy,

Thanks for these suggestions, eventually that was exactly what I did and now it works.

The router gives via DHCP an ip address, 192.168.0.101 in my case for the Bubba and for me to use the Bubba as a web-server and FTP-server I had to open port 80, 20 an 21 via the router for that ip address. And when I browsed to my static IP address (the one I got from my Internet Service Provider) it went to the index.html in the home/web/ directory.

very nice.

When I lost the Bubba I could look it up in in the routers DCHP table, that is where I found the particular ip address of the Bubba, 192.168.0.101 in my case and I could login to the Bubba with that.

(maybe that information is useful to others.)