Setting Up Personal Domain

Hi Everyone,
I wasn't noob at this before, but I guess I fall back into this category. I recently purchased and install Mac OS X 10.5.2 Server, and I am trying to set everything up. I understand most of the basics, but I want to use my personal domain, deviantsynergy.com as the domain on my system. I know I need name servers and such. But I only get a Dynamic IP from my ISP, and I am behind a dlink DIR-625 router. I believe there are some sites that I can use dynamic dns, but I am at a total loss of how to set all this up. I want to be able to host websites, have mail server set up for my collegues, etc. Can someone give me the run down on how to get this all going?
Thanks!

First setup a dyndns account.
For the dynamic IP you could perhaps use a dyndns FQDN as the pointer to your DNS hosting your own domainname, if the domain registrar will allow you.
deviantsynergy.com NS deviantsynergy.dyndns.org (or some other FQDN using one of dyndns domains)
To update the account at dyndns with the current dynamic IP either use the router or a dyndns client running on the server.
Use a static IP for the server on the router/server LAN and forward the ports and protocols you need to it.
A coule of years back I helped another guy who eventually got this working.
It might be easier if the router supports NAT loopback and if you have a second internal only domain setup on the server.

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Just a quick question to make sure I've done this correctly?
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I've purchased a personal domain with godaddy.
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Its' extensively discusses in this forum.
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There are tips on your dotMac homepage:
http://www.mac.com/WebObjects/Welcome
http://www.mac.com/web/en/Tips/Tips.html
[And here|http://www.mac.com/web/en/Tips/185DE18A-73AB-4E9D-8BD4-A2A75A1C95CF.html]
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https://secure.me.com/account/
where you find a link to iWeb: [Using your own domain name|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1107]
Or read it in [the MobileMe help|http://help.apple.com/mac/1/help> : Account > Setting up a Personal Domain

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there is no button that says "Personal Domain".
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I know I run the risk of getting this post taken down, but I have just spent six hours trying to have my iWeb pages sent to my domain page.
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None of these programs explained how to get a domain name or set up DNS. Meanwhile, the hosting services have evolved, and they all have their own system.
I didn't use any previous version of iWeb because it was a pain to publish to anything but .mac or whatever Apple names it's server and the server has never had enough speed for me. It wasn't until iWeb '09 that I really began to take a look at it for some simple projects that could be put together in an evening, and turned over to a client for them to have fun with.
For what it does, iWeb is fantastic. I've created pages with layers and rich graphics that would have required much more work with any other program I've ever used. The learning curve for iWeb is as simple as opening a page and exploring all the buttons. Of course, you might need to understand why you would need a button, like the poster a couple of days ago, that didn't understand how to link to another page. But you catch on pretty fast.
iWeb will turn out results within a week or two, that would take you several years of study and graphics/site design to master. It has many limitations, so I wouldn't consider it for a commercial site, unless the site is a 'business card' site with show and tell, but not for retail sales, or a very large number of pages.
I'm hoping that iWeb will improve with future versions enough so that some tools for sidewide management like widgets that hold a navigation bar, that you design on your pages, and when you update the navigation bar in the widget, all the pages get updated automatically, or even the ability to change the address for a URL on one page and have it change on every page the link is on. Updates and corrections are not as easy to do with iWeb as other programs.
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The tech support can show you where to upload your files, they set up DNS, and handle all of those other chores, so you can concentrate on designing interesting pages with iWeb.
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Hi, i am new to the apple community so bare with me whilst i struggle to explain...
I recently purchased a hosting site through netregistry.net. www.toyboxtherapies.com.au I spoke to them to allow the changes to the CNAME through their site.They did this for me. Once they did this my original 3 page site that I had published to mobileme came up.
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I went to double check today and now iweb wont let me publish to my domain name at all, it just lists File>Set up personal domain on mobile me.
When I log into mobile me my domain name is there. I have tried removing t and setting it up again, but nothing is happening with iweeb. Still the same problem.
Please help! I am trying to get this business off the ground and its all very frustrating!

This is what I see in a Lookup :
; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 <<>> www.toyboxtherapies.com.au cname +multiline +nocomments +nocmd +noquestion +nostats +search
;; global options: +cmd
www.toyboxtherapies.com.au. 3600 IN CNAME web.me.com.
It means that the CNAME record points to MobileMe.
So go where you manage your domain and delete the CNAME record and change the A-record(s) to point to your new webhost.
It takes some time for the changes to propagate thru the internet. A minimum of 20 minutes.
Note that when you publish to MobileMe, iWeb recieves the domainname information from the MobileMe server. Only when you publish elsewhere you have to enter the domainname. But if you do not change the settings where you host your domainname, it still directs to MMe. But that's beyond iWeb.

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I've searched and searched for an answer to my problem all over the internet and these forums and keep coming up blank.
Apologies if the answer is somewhere and I've missed it.
It could be a wider problem with my MobileMe, but iWeb is where it first occurred.
I recently had my personal website forwarding to my MobileMe site, and was using the MobileMe webspace to host my site. I had set my personal domain (in MobileMe) to the personal website. Why I did this I'm not sure, as I wasn't actually using the external webspace, merely forwarding it to my MobileMe site.
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I'm completely at a loss as to how to proceed. I've deleted preferences from iweb and also logged out of mobileme, put a fake name in and logged back in again (to clear the cache I think) and still iweb hangs. I've even tried creating a new user account and logging in there and still it hangs.
Apologies for the essay of a post, if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Just some suggestions as to where to go would be helpful. I'm wondering if it's something to do with Keychains? I had a brief look in there but it all went over my head. This is the first problem I've ever had with my new mac, and being from a PC background, don't really know where to look to fix things.
Thanks in advance to people who even get through reading the entire post!

If stephen's suggestion doesn't help you might consider the following:
Source: http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/mobileme/index.html#d30jul2008
Page Title: MobileMe
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:06:25 AM
Jim Oase
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Do I use the File>Publish to MobileMe option...?
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What you need to do is separate out your sites so that they each have their own domain file and load into iWeb and publish one a time.
http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWebMultiplewebsites.html
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