Odd issue, but one I haven’t been able to solve in years.
I have used my own web servers forever and a day. But I’m always messing with them trying to learn this or that and will occasionally destroy it! lol So for a couple sites, I use a hosting service.
I also use the hosting service for my dns, since it’s a pain for me to set up. So I’ll buy a domain name and point it to my servers via url stealth, and have never had an issue with anything but this.
My favicon.ico never works this way. It works fine with the sites on the hosting service, and it works fine if I go to my server site using the IP address. But it just will not display through the host no matter what I try.
It is a very small issue, but would be nice to have it work.
Thanks!
Related
Just looking for some opinions on this.
I altered a hosts file on my local machine to try and preview a site hosted with Bluehost (to check everything is working correctly before I point my live domain to their server).
This didn't work and I keep getting a 404 error.
I spoke to 6 people from Bluehost now and only one of them seemed to know what a hosts file was. Everyone else seemed to point out the domain's A records are not pointing to the BH server, which is correct as it is not what I'm trying to do at all. I'm trying to preview the BH site BEFORE I point my live domain to the BH server.
Hosts file is what I always use to preview a site before it goes live. I've done it with hundreds of sites on many different servers and never had an issue... until I came across Bluehost.
Their support just doesn't seem to know what a hosts file is, they keep referring me back to the live DNS A record.
I just don't understand how Bluehost is WordPress #1 recommended hosting when their technical support is so incompetent.
Am I being unreasonable here? How can a hosting company not know what a hosts file is?
I've got a very large JS app built in Wakanda that I'm working on, and suddenly hit a strange issue.
Our Solution has four main projects in it:
Consumers
Merchants
Funders
Promoters
These projects all have their own functions, and up until recently have had them operating on the same server via different port addresses - 8100, 8101, 8102, 8103. This has worked without a problem, with the localhost as the host in the Settings.waSettings file, and the respective ports set there.
Now, moving to production, we need to have these routing through to the site from subdomains. Because of the way A-records are and not being able to define a port address, we have our .consumer, .merchant etc subdomains all going to the same elastic IP address, and using the Settings.waSettings files in Wakanda to handle the routing of traffic to each project.
We have set all the incoming ports as 80, with it listening for the subdomain name to handle which project to route the user to. This worked yesterday without a hitch for around an hour on the server, before it suddenly stacked itself. For a time, the Wakanda server just stopped each time you attempted to access one of the subdomains. After a while longer it's not crashing each time, but just simply resolving to a '409 Conflict' screen.
My question is, can Wakanda reliably use it's project Settings file to handle requests like this? Or is there a better way to handle this? I know there used to be a thread in the forums on this discussion.
Thanks, let me know if you need any more information.
Ok lets say I want to create a connection between my iPhone app and my server (i'd like to try and use GoDaddy servers for this) to server real time location data to users.
I've seen plenty of good stuff online about using sockets, streams, ASIHttpmessage, CFHTTPMessageRef, etc., but what I'm unclear about is how to set up a server that continuously servers real time data to users (I believe you'd need a stream of data going to the user for this, not just a single http request and response). How does one take a host like GoDaddy and run server code on it. I know you can set up a server like this using terminal, but I don't have access to command line or the ability to run this "server program" from my web host as far as I know. Is there software I can download on my cpanel for this? Do I need a virtual private server and different hosting via GoDaddy maybe?
Does anyone know how I can do this or if my understanding of this whole thing is wrong. Please keep in mind I need this real time (or close to). Please, educate me. I really just need a better understanding of how this works.
I am trying to understand the openGraph API by downloading the SocialCafe example (based on a similar tutorial here). I am able to follow most of the steps in theory, but am unable to understand a few aspects:
The tutorial mentions that a link to the application is needed - a link such that facebook can issue an http GET request. If I do not have a web server, can I still run the application? I have seen some tutorials that specify localhost here on SO. Is that the route I must take to be able to have the sample source code reside locally on my machine and still be able to run the app on fb? If so, how do I set it up?
If I need a web server, is there a way I can turn my own machine into one? If so, how do I go about it?
I am coming from a DSP/C/C++ background and have very little web programming experience. Please do let me know in case some more details are needed.
You will need a publicly accessible web server for your development efforts. You can turn your localhost into one if you can get a static IP address from your ISP (pretty rare now-a-days to get one), then buy a domain name and set DNS up to point to your IP. On your computer you will need to install and configure a web server to use that IP and domainname combination. It takes about 48 hours for DNS to propagate the interwebs.
Your best bet it to purchase some web hosting along with a domain name (you're going to need one eventually once your app is out of development). Then you can run your app under a "sub domain" on your main domain (or in a sub folder on your production domain).
I'm researching how to code an iPhone app that needs to connect to an online service to get data. The online service only provides access to specified IP addresses or ranges, so iPhones won't be able to connect directly, and the request will have to go through a server. I looked into setting up my own forward proxy server (which the service in question are happy with, by the way), which I guess would do the job for most other platforms. Unfortunately the iPhone does not seem to allow configuring a proxy address programmatically. Is there another potential solution for accessing the content from an intermediate server, that would show the online service the IP address of the server, rather than each individual iPhone?
Many thanks
Steve
It appears that using cURL is one way to achieve this. There should be bindings available for Cocoa.
I'll let people know how it goes in the comments.
Steve