I registered a DynDNS account.
Added it to the host file (as you showed above)
Changed the Wordpress URI to the DynDNS url.
All is working fine both locally and on the web!

Many thanks acme.mail.order! :D

Hi,

I have a similar problem with my wordpress install.

I have port 80 forwarded to my imac hosting the site and everything seems to be working, I just need to type the dyndns url twice everytime, the first time the url changes to my local address, and then typing the dyn address again does work.

Also when I first installed it it wouldn't show the images, they were aimed at my local adress so wouldn't load any of them for some reason (they showed: http://my-computer.local/ instead of my normal url linked to dyndns).
And that's also what it shows now when going to the url from a external computer it also first changes the url to http://my-computer.local en when I then type it again it does work...
where in the wordpress dir can I check if all the links are set to the dyndns url? or is it a permissions problem?

I hope I made myself a bit clear =)

tnx,
dav.

Open the wp-admin page and check that you have told WordPress the correct external URL. Then go back to the top of this thread and deal with the name resolution. It's never going to work unless WordPress has the correct name and that name points to your computer from wherever you are.