i have a domain name at 123-reg.co.uk, and a host at aspnethosting.co.uk. I have the ip address for my site on the host 77.240.10.158, but i cant see how to match my domain name to that ip address?
Depending on what you are trying to do you probably will not be able to. You can host multiple sites in different ways:
1 - use different IP addresses for each site
2 - use different ports for each site
3 - use different host headers for each site (the sites will share the ip address and port)
The host is probably using the host header that is passed to determine what website it is, so when someone goes to 77.240.10.158 and port 80 the server than looks at what particular URL was requested. It says "aha, they are looking for 123-reg.co.uk" and
serves up that site accordingly.
this means that your site shares that ip address and port with a number of other sites, so if someone did a reverse lookup of 77.240.10.158 they will get the default, but not your particular site.
You need to contact aspnethosting.co.uk as your hosting provider and please request them to create an "A" record for your domain, which points to 77.240.10.158. Alternatively, you can also buy a Managed DNS service, in which you can create the A record yourself.
Hope this helps.
P.S: I am truly shocked with the hosting price at aspnethosting.co.uk because the price is considerably high with less features....
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host - domain name matchign error
May 28, 2009 11:34 AM|ricardino|LINK
this is a bit of an amateur question but...
i have a domain name at 123-reg.co.uk, and a host at aspnethosting.co.uk. I have the ip address for my site on the host 77.240.10.158, but i cant see how to match my domain name to that ip address?
any ideas?
thanks
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Re: host - domain name matchign error
May 28, 2009 02:55 PM|papabear|LINK
Depending on what you are trying to do you probably will not be able to. You can host multiple sites in different ways:
1 - use different IP addresses for each site
2 - use different ports for each site
3 - use different host headers for each site (the sites will share the ip address and port)
The host is probably using the host header that is passed to determine what website it is, so when someone goes to 77.240.10.158 and port 80 the server than looks at what particular URL was requested. It says "aha, they are looking for 123-reg.co.uk" and serves up that site accordingly.
this means that your site shares that ip address and port with a number of other sites, so if someone did a reverse lookup of 77.240.10.158 they will get the default, but not your particular site.
Does that make sense?
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Re: host - domain name matchign error
May 29, 2009 02:23 AM|HostingASPNet|LINK
Hello,
You should login into the domain name register control panel and change your DNS settings, creating "A record" pointing to your hosting IP address.
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Re: host - domain name matchign error
May 29, 2009 06:03 AM|carl.steinhart|LINK
hi ricardino,
You need to contact aspnethosting.co.uk as your hosting provider and please request them to create an "A" record for your domain, which points to 77.240.10.158. Alternatively, you can also buy a Managed DNS service, in which you can create the A record yourself.
Hope this helps.
P.S: I am truly shocked with the hosting price at aspnethosting.co.uk because the price is considerably high with less features....
Carl Steinhart