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  • 07-06-2010 9:25pm
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    Rsaeire
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    I'm having issues with accessing a website of mine from my desktop, laptop and netbook, all running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit, using a Magnet broadband connection. I've tested accessing the same site from other Magnet connections, but I'm experiencing the same issue. I have used Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.6. The issue is that the IIS7 image is being displayed, as shown below, instead of my website:

    iis7.png

    I have tested accessing the same website on different computers from an Eircom, Meteor and O2 connection, using friends' computers who are also running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit, and they all can connect fine. I've used the website http://www.iphider.org/ to access my site and surprisingly I can access it fine. A such, it appears to be an issue with Magnet somehow, especially since it's occurring on more than one Magnet connection and not when using any other network providers.

    As Magnet are unavailable until tomorrow, I was hoping someone on Boards has come across an issue like this and could offer some advice.


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    spider guardian
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    It's serving the default website. Perhaps some of Magnet's servers have cached that site at your domain? What happens when you access that website using just the IP address (eg. 193.10.10.10 instead of www.mywebsite.com)?

    IIS is definitely serving your site on port 80? Have you tried using apache and seeing what is being served with it?


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    Rsaeire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Rsaeire


    spider guardian wrote: »
    It's serving the default website. Perhaps some of Magnet's servers have cached that site at your domain? What happens when you access that website using just the IP address (eg. 193.10.10.10 instead of www.mywebsite.com)?

    When trying to access the IP address of my site I get the following message:

    "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access/ on this server"
    spider guardian wrote: »
    IIS is definitely serving your site on port 80? Have you tried using apache and seeing what is being served with it?

    IIS is disabled on my computer, so I thought that would have solved the problem.


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    Rsaeire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Rsaeire


    I figured out the problem. I needed to re-enable IIS and change the port to 79. I don't know how this worked, especially when other computers using different network Magnet couldn't connect. Thanks to spider guardian too for the assist. ;)


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    spider guardian
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    No probs, definitely a strange one!


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    Snowbat
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    Did your website move to a new server recently? If so, Magnet's DNS probably had the old IP address cached and was handing it out until the TTL expired. To avoid this, you need to reduce the TTL before the move: http://www.elated.com/articles/move-website-to-new-server-the-seamless-way/


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    Rsaeire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Rsaeire


    Snowbat wrote: »
    Did your website move to a new server recently? If so, Magnet's DNS probably had the old IP address cached and was handing it out until the TTL expired. To avoid this, you need to reduce the TTL before the move: http://www.elated.com/articles/move-website-to-new-server-the-seamless-way/

    Cheers for that Snowbat. That would explain why Magnet connections couldn't connect while other network connections could. ;)


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