How to set website adress as URL instead of IP adress? - web

I started learning some website designing and I wonder how can I make my site adress look f. ex. like ender.com instead of IP address and port. I'm doing everything on my own computer, so I would really appreciate way, which will allow me to host a website on it. I'm a beginner, so I'd like to know if I'm even capable of doing this.

You need a domain name in which you're gonna host your website, in your case its ender.com, as you run your website from your own pc it shows your localhost and port instead of ender.com as you don't own that domain. Only way to show ender.com is that you buy that domain and host the website with that purchased domain.
Refer this for more info https://blog.resellerclub.com/how-to-host-a-domain-website-on-your-own/#:~:text=%20A%20few%20steps%20on%20how%20to%20host,may%20have%20issues%20here%20based%20on...%20More%20

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I just set up a DirectAdmin server. What I'd like to accomplish is disabling http://example.com:2222 on certain websites. Is that possible?
Sorry but according this link it seems you can't do that!
If you point the domain to a dedicated IP then you can block access to 2222 on the IP with firewall.
There are no other options.
anyway if we assume you could do this other users also can access your directadmin with your IP address like this :
1.2.3.4:2222
I really don't know why you wanna do this but maybe changing your server port is good option..

whois lookup shows correct ip but why my browser can not find IP address of domain?

My website suddenly stopped working.
When I search for the domain name in WHOIS websites it is showing the correct server ip address and correct DNS IP address.
I can reach the website by its IP address but somehow when I am trying the domain name in browser its not working and its showing "This site can’t be reached"!
There is no error in my server log.
I tried different browsers and different systems and it is same issue.
I am really confused. Even when I am sending GET requests with Postman to my domain, it not reachable but sending request to IP is working!
whois and DNS resolution are two separate things and one does not imply anything for the other, so in short, except in very specific cases, if you have a DNS resolution problem you should use DNS troubleshooting tools, not the whois and especially not web-based whois (the only relevant whois is the registry one).
Now you are giving so few details that noone can really help.
Among the possible ideas to check and probable problems:
you forgot to renew the domain, your registrar put it on hold or worse deleted it (that you can see in whois)
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in appear that the problem was DNS on our local system. we changed it to 8.8.8.8 and then we could access to our domain!
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How to forward XAMPP to domain

I have a computer running XAMPP on 192.168.1.X:80 and that port forwarded, along with a domain I can set nameservers and/or zone records on.
Security risks aside, how do I set the domain so I can go to mydomain.com and see my XAMPP server?
Edit: I can verify that my port forwarding works, I just need to be able to access it through my domain, not the 12.345.678.90:1234 address.
Excuse my bad english.
One of the ways is:
Visit http://www.noip.com and Sign in. There you'll get your Domain. You'll have to get location on the file 'host', modify your hosts file using this link http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/how-do-i-modify-my-hosts-file

How to do a no-DNS site preview, when a wildcard redirect is in place

I'm looking to figure out how to replicate the functionality of GoDaddy's PreviewDNS when I'm moving a site to my own web host based in cpanel.
My setup is this: I have a wordpress multiuser site setup with a subdomain install, and a wildcard redirect.
I can't figure out how I can preview the website for an account before the DNS is switched over to my host from the old host.
I've been able to sorta do this by creating an A record of a subdomain over to my host, but I still have the issue of not being able to test the actual files instead of a copy in a subdomain.
I have two IP addresses attached to the server, one to the server itself and all the shared domains, and the other dedicated to the WP multisite.
When I go to http://ipaddress/~username/, I either get an error, or get redirected to the wordpress multisite's default "this site doesn't exist, sign up now to create it" page. I've tried this with both IP addresses with no avail.
Any ideas?
I think what you're trying to do is ensure that everything is working on the new server before having the DNS globally changed for all users? You could change your local computers hosts file to point the domain (and any subdomains you wish to test) over to the new dedicated IP address, which is essentially moving the DNS over for just yourself.
Here's a pretty good guide on how to do it: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27350/beginner-geek-how-to-edit-your-hosts-file/

How do I redirect to a shared virtual hosted site in the hosts file?

I want to change my hosts file to redirect a web address to my site...
normally I would just do... ping mysite.com then in the hosts file, if the IP came out as 99.99.99.99, I'd write...
99.99.99.99 siteiwanttoredirect.com
But in this case my site is on virtual shared hosting... which means the IP I get back from the ping is the same as a few other sites and if I type that IP in the address bar, www.mysite.com won't come up. Here's a bit more details: someone who asked a question about why pinging it wouldn't give the correct IP.
So what I would like to know is... if you're on virtual shared hosting, how can you specify redirects to your site in the hosts file?
Thanks,
Matt
You cannot. With the hosts file you can change the IP address, but your shared hosting provider needs the HTTP Host header to be set up correctly -- which in your case will still be siteiwanttoredirect.com and not mysite.com . Your hosting provider will therefor not know who's site to show.
What you could do is redirect to some host you control (f.i. localhost) and run a proxy server there. If you set up Apache on your machine, with a virtual host for siteiwanttoredirect.com which does a reverse proxy to mysite.com , it should work.
This is handled via the host header of the website, and not anything on your local machine, like your hosts file.
I would make sure your host has that set up, then as long as people visit your sit via the website name, and not IP, everything should work.
On a shared host, the website you get is determined by the domain name you ask for thanks to the Host HTTP header. For this to work properly the web server needs to be configured correctly so it knows what website to serve in response to which Host request - this is usually called 'Add-on Domains' on CPanel driven shared hosting.

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