Namecheap DDNS

Leverage Namecheap's DDNS to do run things like web servers at home.

Quickstart

• Use the docker image (images are provided for arm64 machines like the Raspberry Pi 4 - and amd64 computers)

docker run \
    -e PASSWORD=ADDYOURPASSWORDHERE \
    -e DOMAIN=mydomain.com \
    -e SUB_DOMAINS=www,api \
    -it dougflynn/namecheap-ddns

OR Manually run source code

• First, git clone the repo,
• Then, cp .env.example .env and populate your secrets
• Then pick a way to run

Docker (recommended)

• Run docker build -t namecheap-ddns .
• Then run:

docker run \
    -e PASSWORD=ADDYOURPASSWORDHERE \
    -e DOMAIN=mydomain.com \
    -e SUB_DOMAINS=www,api \
    -it namecheap-ddns

Raw Python

• Run python -m venv venv
• Then source ./venv/bin/activate
• Install deps pip install -r requirements.txt
• Finally python -u main.py