Website Not Displaying

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Published 8th October 2010 |
Read latest comment - 12th October 2010

This is a bit of a conundrum as we have checked out as many things as I can think of and to no avail

Launched a wordpress website last Wednesday. Done the same as we always do, and the domain is with 123-Reg as are dozens of ours and our customers. We normally upload site to server and change nameservers and site goes live pretty soon thereafter.

Except on this occasion whilst it has gone live, no doubt about that, the customer cannot get it to display on his PC and instead gets the 123-Reg holding page.

Various other people and myelf can view it, even browsershots is returning it fine across the board except it did return 1 result with the 123-reg holding page. The url in the browser converts to show the IP address followed by the domain name. Client has most recent versions of FF & IE.

Today I went over to clients house and took my laptop on which I can view said website OK. I plugged his ethernet into my laptop and guess what, I got the same result as him!

Have I missed something here? Normally we dont have to do anything, but clearly at the clients end there is a setting that needs changing but i'm out of ideas.

We have checked firewall permissions, turned off firewall temporarily, made sure latest browser versions are installed (he is getting same result in FF & IE) and he even rang 2 IT guys and they couldn't offer an instant answer like "oh yes its your thingymajiggy just click x, y and z and reboot" and i've never come across it before either.

Any ideas?

indizine
indizine
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Is there an option to take your router and check - at least then you can confirm if it is their router - also have you tried switching of the firewall for a few minutes see if you see it then?

tomsk

forum avatarbox.co.uk
8th October 2010 9:56 PM
that is very strange, as tomsk says the only common part to the puzzle is the router. I suspect that swapping it will resolve the issue and maybe then once you swap back as everything is then refreshed and restarted it may resolve it. Have you tried disconnecting leaving off and unplugged for 5 and rebooting router?

Thats baffled me too im afraid sorry

Sounds like the dns cache on the router isn't releasing properly.

A powercycle should force it, power the router off, leave it off for a few mins and unplugged so all power is fully discharged, then power it up and try again.

Wouldn't happen to be a Linksys router would it?

Had a similar problem with a Linksy router ages ago, but never seen it on Netgear or Belkin ones I've used since.

Maybe update the firmware of the router as well, in case its a known bug.

Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
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Yes tried turning off Firewall after checking permisssions and checked his McAfee blockings.

It is worth noting that he has also recently moved form AOL to TalkTalk however the problem hasnt gone away and he has switched routers during this time (he got a new talktalk one) so we cant pin it down to a router either if it's been changed.

However I do not know if the client has rebooted it since we applied a few things (ip reset, etc) yesterday but as I say, it was same with aol router and he obviously had to turn that off to then plug in TT router. But I will ask him to power the lot down for ten mins and reboot and check again. Meanwhile if anyone can throw the smallest of ideas in, it would be appreciated. We may have already done most obvious things but you never just know!

indizine
indizine

forum avatarwassat
9th October 2010 1:08 PM
Hi

I know the router has been swapped out but what about the cables. I, for one always keep the original cables 'cos it's normally a pain crawling around to remove and replace.

Dave

well that's true, the cable is the same and perhaps the only common denominator now, come to think of it. Will ask him if he has another he can try. Thanks!

indizine
indizine

Assuming it's just a straightforward PC - Router - internet with nothing else inbetween, such as office servers, ISA or local DNS servers?

If the client has office servers, then it could be a DNS issue on a local server which would explain why you had the same issue when you plugged into his network.

If not, bit stumped, only other things I could think of would be a duff entry on a local host file, or a problem with the local ISP DNS server?

but thats clutching at straws. Be interesting to hear the final resolution!

Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
My Local Services | Me on LinkedIn

Its just a normal basic home set up.

indizine
indizine

forum avatar123reg
11th October 2010 5:59 PM
Hi indizine

I'm from 123-reg and if you PM me your domain i'll have a check just to make sure it is nothing our end.

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