Is there any way of finding out where a website is being hosted?
looking at the source code of a website, is there anyway of finding where the site is being hosted ?
The code of a website has nothing to do with the host itself unless the programmer put a comment in the code of where he hosted is website but that would make no sense at all :)
If you want to know more information about a specific website go to:
www.whois.com (if the host is shared host you might know who is the hosting company)
If you want to know the location of the website go to:
http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/
Insert the website you want to trace. Example google.com is located in:
IP address state: California
IP address city: Mountain View
I think this is what you want to know at least judging by your question.
looking at the source code of a website, is there anyway of finding
where the site is being hosted ?
By just looking at the source code, you cannot find the web hosting provider hosting a particular website.
Is there any way of finding out where a website is being hosted?
There are multiple ways to find the hosting provider of any website.
You can try online free services like Who is Hosting this Website? to find out the hosting provider of any website.
You can open your command prompt and type "tracert ~domain-name~".
In the tracert report, the last hope will determine who is hosting
this website. Usually, name of the web hosting provider is written
as a unique identifier name like "11.22.33-accuwebhosting-com".
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I hosted a website quite a while back, let's call it abc.com. It's been shut down for quite some time, and recently I decided to build another website using the same IP and web server. This time, however, whenever I search for the new website on Google, it shows up as my old domain name.
So, it'll have abc.com, but with all my current website's information. I can even access the abc.com address directly, even though I'm not running the DNS for it anymore and there's no mention of it anywhere on my webserver. I completely wiped it.
As a note, I was using Cloudflare, does that have anything to do with it? How is this possible and does anyone know how to fix it?
So I'm a web designer with experience in HTML, CSS and Java. I've used FTP to manage my site a couple of times for my company.
Overall I have experience in using Joomla and WordPress CMSs, but that's just the problem: I have barely any experience in even understanding DNSs, server stuff, domain management. I could really use some help on this.
Firstly, our IT Manager left so now I'm in charge as the sole web designer of the company. The website URL is www.????.org.uk and that's where the live website is.
Issue here is that sometimes I type in the same URL WITHOUT the www, which results in ANOTHER website (actually a beta I worked on a while ago that I'm sure the IT Manager set up for me).
We have a 123reg account and a HeartInternet Reseller hosting account. I understand that you buy domains, and you can forward them to a hosting platform to manage them and 'serve' them on servers to make them live. So in this case I'm betting it's owned and bought using 123Reg, and hosted on HeartInternet.
Here's the second issue I don't understand. We have a bunch of domains bought, most redirecting to www.????.org.uk, but we ALSO have the URL WITHOUT the www.
Remember what I said earlier? All things point to www version, but we own a domain WITHOUT the www and I can't find the domain listed anywhere with the www, so how in the world can I manage the www site (which is the live site)?
Please do teach me a little if you can about this and point me to the right direction. Thank you!
From what I saw several times before:
By default the www is use-less and points to the default ip:port registered at ????.org.uk. For a reason (that I don't understand) some people create a new DNS entry with a sub-domain called "www" pinging to a different ip and/or port. This results in www.????.org.uk acting like someSubDomain.????.org.uk.
Have you checked if this could be your case?
If it is, I suggest you change the "www" subdomain to "dev" or "beta". This will make www.????.org.uk and ????.org.uk redirect to the same "website" and beta.????.org.uk to the beta version of your company's site.
Be aware that a DNS change could require up to 24h to be spread and updated on the ISP's servers.
I am using Squarespace to host a portfolio site at http://chasem.co. I am also building a personal landing using Jekyll and Github Pages. I want to set this up in a kind of weird way. Here's what I want:
The domain (chasem.co) should point to the landing page hosted on Github using Jekyll. However, I still want to use the the portfolio pages at Squarespace, which are at chasem.co/photos and chasem.co/design. The page at chasem.co will have links to these pages.
Is this possible? Basically I want to use the root of the domain for a page hosted at one place, and then directories of that URL for pages hosted elsewhere.
Any ideas are welcome. Thanks!
I'm not a network genius but I think that your setup will be hard to get working.
The alternative idea is to use a subdomain for your photos and design sections.
pointing DNS to chasem.co at github + CNAME file in your user repository github.com/userName/userName.github.io
pointing DNS to photos.chasem.co and design.chasem.co at Squarespace
I have developed a web application in Oracle APEX, which I have thoroughly tested and it is running fine on my home PC. I also have bought a domain name. Now I want to know how can I connect that domain name to my home computer, so that anyone on internet can see my site ?
For the time being, just forget about the domain name. I just want to know how can I connect to my home server from internet using just the IP address (no domain required) of my computer? if anyone can reach my computer, we will have access to my web server/site.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks in advance.
These two links will help you get started. Its hard, but is possible. I don't know if the time is worth the couple bucks for a domain and all the support that comes with it.
http://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/website-without-domain-name.shtml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZqCEHRqY38
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If I buy a hosting (+ domain) service for the website of a friend of mine, and then I decide to use the remaining web space and mysql databases for my development and test...
is google caching my development websites (in other folders and sub-urls) under his website ?
What's the downside to develop on a server with already a production website.. ? I was thinking to create a tiny url linking to a www.myfriendwebsite.com/mydevelopmentSite.. in order to hide the real url.
Thanks
If you don't link to it or don't submit to google or list in a sitemap -- google won't find it.
But, you could also just use a robots.txt to tell google not to index it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard
Update: to stop google and malicious bots:
Put a directory in robots.txt using *, and then put your site in a hard to guess subdirectory of that directory -- also, don't keep directory browsing on.
Also -- don't link to it anywhere, but perhaps you can't stop others from linking -- in that case, only robots.txt will keep you out of google. Malicious bots can get the site from the link.
Your hosting provider may have forbidden that in his Terms of Service (mine has). Other than that, I'd go for a subdomain instead of a subdirectory (like mydevelopmentsite.myfriendswebsite.com).