hi am waiting for the dns to probergate how long dose that take 24 hours my server ppl are telling me 76 but when i do a whois its showiing the new dns. and i could get to the site yester day but know i carnt. you vcan get you site up via the ip do i just need to but the sites ip in to the addres bar for the site to come up or do i need to add somefink to the end of it
If your site using dedicated ip you have to just write the ip address in the explorer. If you are using cpanel based shared ip you have to write something like http://your ip/~username PHP: If you are using fast dns server it should be updated within a hour.
thanks did noot work as there was a problem with server but thanks mr all the help in all the threds. the server is all set up know and my site is up yaaaaaaaaaaaa lol
site.com/~username only works if the site is setup to support that method. Since you are probably using virtualhosts, there is really no way to access it by IP directly, since you have to pass the hostname in the request, for instance : GET / HTTP/1.1 site: www.site.com Code (markup): (think that's right... close anyway) This way many sites can share an IP. BUT, if you set your DNS, on your local machine, to your host's DNS, then they have a static entry for you, and you can view your site immediately, before DNS propagates to your local machine's ISP's DNS. So if I am hosted by awesomehosting.com, I simply ping ns1.awesomehosting.com, get that IP, and put it in my local machine as my primary DNS server. You'll want to change that back after you are done, or you may not be able to resolve anything but the sites hosted on your host (people don't allow recursive DNS much anymore.)