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Glorfindal

24 Oct, 2009 - 07:46 AM
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Okay I recently bought a domain name from Godaddy.com. And now that my server is working. I had it foward with masking to my IP address. The problem is when I am on my forum the real directory to it is dragonkwest.net/forum/ but it just says dragonkwest.net in the browser bar how do I fix this?

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24 Oct, 2009 - 07:48 AM
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You haven't set it up as a real domain, it's just running in a frame.

If you want to do it properly, have the nameservers point to your server's IP address, and setup your server to bind that website to the domain name.
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24 Oct, 2009 - 07:58 AM
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How do I do that?
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24 Oct, 2009 - 08:02 AM
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Is this a real server or are you home-hosting it??
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24 Oct, 2009 - 08:04 PM
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Based on these netcraft results, it looks like it's hosted on Godaddy.
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25 Oct, 2009 - 01:10 PM
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What do you home-hosting it? The computer is at my house and I am just using a vista Home Premium OS with the version of IIS that came with it free.

#2pencil: That's because I bought my domain from godaddy.

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27 Oct, 2009 - 09:52 AM
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QUOTE(Glorfindal @ 25 Oct, 2009 - 03:10 PM) *

#2pencil: That's because I bought my domain from godaddy.

So you're having problems with your domain, & then you're going to tell me why the results are they way they are?

Nice.

The problem is that your nameserver entries point to GoDaddy, & not to where your server is located. Thus, the Netcraft results are correct, & are pointing out the error.

Or you can tell me that I'm wrong, & fix it yourself smile.gif Because my Netcraft results point to my server, where my websites are hosted, & not to GoDaddy, where I registered the domain names.
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27 Oct, 2009 - 09:57 AM
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No, it's fine. Almost every domain registrar has a "Forwarding" option, which is a frame hosted on their server pointing to another site.

The issue is because he's home-hosting it, asin he's on a non-reliable, non-static IP Address'd connection which will connect/disconnect, sometimes giving a new IP - which renders it unusable.
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27 Oct, 2009 - 10:03 AM
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QUOTE(RudiVisser @ 27 Oct, 2009 - 11:57 AM) *

The issue is because he's home-hosting it, asin he's on a non-reliable, non-static IP Address'd connection which will connect/disconnect, sometimes giving a new IP - which renders it unusable.

Forwarding? Ewwwww!

I would still consider this a DNS/nameserver issue. Forwards are often consider spammy, as well as email will have huge problems coming from a home (residential) ip address, let alone when a reverse DNS fails.
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27 Oct, 2009 - 12:06 PM
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Is there a way to get a static IP?
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27 Oct, 2009 - 01:23 PM
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Contact your ISP?

@no2pencil Of course they're tacky but updating DNS to point to his new IP every day isn't cooooool biggrin.gif
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27 Oct, 2009 - 04:59 PM
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QUOTE(Glorfindal @ 27 Oct, 2009 - 02:06 PM) *

Is there a way to get a static IP?

Commercial grade service. But be prepared to pay 3x the amount you normally pay.
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29 Oct, 2009 - 04:37 PM
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What is commercial grade Service? smile.gif Also what would you normally pay? Don't laugh I am knew to this. And I have been noticing issues with Wireless computers (like losing Internet access on other wireless computers in my network.) in my network will having a Dynamic IP on a server in a network cause that because I didn't have these issues.
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29 Oct, 2009 - 04:41 PM
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Well it's going to be much cheaper to just get hosting, why arn't you doing that?? confused.gif
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29 Oct, 2009 - 10:50 PM
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Rudi : I already asked that question. I'm all for learning, but before I got into web hosting I read a handful of books on it.
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30 Oct, 2009 - 12:21 PM
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None of you answered my primary question read my post.

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30 Oct, 2009 - 12:23 PM
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QUOTE(RudiVisser @ 24 Oct, 2009 - 02:48 PM) *

You haven't set it up as a real domain, it's just running in a frame.

Clearly did..
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31 Oct, 2009 - 05:33 AM
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QUOTE(Glorfindal @ 29 Oct, 2009 - 04:37 PM) *

What is commercial grade Service? smile.gif Also what would you normally pay? Don't laugh I am knew to this. And I have been noticing issues with Wireless computers (like losing Internet access on other wireless computers in my network.) in my network will having a Dynamic IP on a server in a network cause that because I didn't have these issues.


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31 Oct, 2009 - 06:45 AM
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Well look...

If you have a dynamic internal IP, you're going to have to keep rerouting the router's (on the wireless) outgoing port.. So forwarding port 80 to that computer for a web server.

Then you have the other issue of constantly rerouting DNS/your frame from GoDaddy since your external IP is dynamic.
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31 Oct, 2009 - 05:26 PM
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Your wireless is operating on an internal (non-routable) subnet. However, if your webserver is offline (because wireless is dropping) then your users are going to get a 404.

I already voiced my concerns to you about running a webserver on laptop over wireless, but they didn't seem to bother you.
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