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I'm building a site for someone at the moment, and I've passed the URL to some people to check, but for one person it doesn't work. He's on the same broadband service, in the same area as me, same OS. I had no trouble on NTL broadband, 56k, win98, winME, winXP -yet it won't work for this one person. Even tried pinging the domain in the DOS prompt, we got the same result, but he still couldn't view it.

Anyway, I didn't want to put this up so early, as it's not finished, but...
[URL]http://www.theloudest.co.uk/test_index.php[/URL]

Anyone have any trouble viewing that? Ignore the fact that it's not finished - I'm in the process of uploading the clever PHP stuff over the weekend, and ironing out bugs. Cheers.

I'm building a site for someone at the moment, and I've passed the URL to some people to check, but for one person it doesn't work. He's on the same broadband service, in the same area as me, same OS. I had no trouble on NTL broadband, 56k, win98, winME, winXP -yet it won't work for this one person. Even tried pinging the domain in the DOS prompt, we got the same result, but he still couldn't view it.

Anyway, I didn't want to put this up so early, as it's not finished, but...
[URL]http://www.theloudest.co.uk/test_index.php[/URL]

Anyone have any trouble viewing that? Ignore the fact that it's not finished - I'm in the process of uploading the clever PHP stuff over the weekend, and ironing out bugs. Cheers.

Not much help, but nice site mate.

AH HA! another one for me, it desont work.

I tried it again and now it doesm Very strage.

Nice little site you have there.

Is this a recently purchased domain name?? It might be that all the DNS's haven’t caught up with its existence, which is why for some people the domain appears non-existent.

Do you know the IP address for the site? If so, ask him to try and view it via that number (eg http://123.456.789.0/).

It might also be that the server you are hosting it on isn't up to much. It could be receiving loads of requests and simply can't handle them all, though I would have thought it unlikely, by only affecting one person.

cjh wrote:
> Do you know the IP address for the site? If so, ask him to try and
> view it via that number (eg http://123.456.789.0/).

monkey_man wrote:
> Even tried pinging the domain in the DOS prompt, we got the same result, but he still couldn't view it.

monkey man, your quote has no relevance to cjh's comments. His point is your friend might not be able to resolve the domain in the first place (if it is new), so he may be able to access it via IP.

Get him to hit http://213.171.218.197/

Turbonutter wrote:
> monkey man, your quote has no relevance to cjh's comments. His point
> is your friend might not be able to resolve the domain in the first
> place (if it is new), so he may be able to access it via IP.
>
> Get him to hit http://213.171.218.197/

Again, that's what I said. We both did "ping www.theloudest.co.uk", got the same IP address, both went there in the browser and only mine worked. The domain is about 2-3 weeks old.

EDIT: I made an index page at the time, and that showed up for me, so it's not that there isn't one yet.

I notice the current home page for your domain returns a 403 - Not authorised. I take it your friend was attempting to visit the link you gave and not the 'home' page ?
It seems everyone here can see your page fine (which was your original question) so I guess if there is a problem it's what your friend is doing (or what he's using to do it with!).

Hmmm... wrote:
> I notice the current home page for your domain returns a 403 - Not
> authorised. I take it your friend was attempting to visit the link
> you gave and not the 'home' page ?
> It seems everyone here can see your page fine (which was your
> original question) so I guess if there is a problem it's what your
> friend is doing (or what he's using to do it with!).

monkey_man wrote:
> I made an index page at the time, and that showed up for me, so it's not > that there isn't one yet.

He's using winXp on NTL broadband, which I've used the exact same setup and had no problem. I think I vaguely remember accessing the domain from his house a week or so ago too...

Ah well, it's probably just one of those random internet things that'll clear up with no explanation from our shadow government.

Probably no help to you but I had a similar problem.

I had two domains hosted on a server, 99% of people could view them apart from people on Wanadoo.

It wasn't until I moved them to another server that people could finally view them.

Strange.