[DAL]

Hi

I have a really weird problem. Im working away on my PC with an server I have installed (Xampp) for my PHP. I work from the http://RootAdmin/ root and I have been busy with a script which basically uses AJAX to populate a list item on a page.

Sometimes I need to refresh the page in Firefox and sometimes in the past 2 days Ive had server errors. I refresh again and it still shows an error. I then take off the last backslash on my friendly URL and hit refresh again. There is then a 404 server error which I was a little confussed by at first then I realised this;

My path changes from ;

http://RootAdmin/localeventguide/htm...n/wsearch1.php

to

http://eric.eberhardt.us/localeventg...n/wsearch1.php

I dont know where the hell this eric.eberhardt.us has come from - I only have 3 bookmarks in FF and Ive never seen the site before.

I have the links to the two screen shots here:

http://www.imagewebdesign.co.uk/myspace/serverfail.jpg
http://www.imagewebdesign.co.uk/myspace/serverfail2.jpg

Can ANYONE give me an explaination of why this might happen?

Thanks
Dal

[TheKiser]

Umm, I don't know what kind of system you're on but don't you need 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1'?

[DAL]

localhost is what I used to use but Im sitting on a network of 3 machines. 1 used for xampp, my machine and another machine which can also access the xampp. The http://rootadmin/ is the same as accessing localhost on that machine but its through the network.

[Jay6390]

It sounds to me like you are being redirected by the script for whatever the index page is. check the index.php file for a redirect or a link of some sort to that address. really is an odd thing

Jay

[DAL]

Like I say, Ive never heard of the website so I couldnt have put it into my script. all addresses are relative to the root anyway so that all start from after where the domain would be in the address.
ie /mydir/script.php

Ive been working away the last couple of days and it hasnt occurred again but its making me nervous. The website first of all that it ends up going to is some religious guy who works with server networking and from what I can see he knows what hes talking about...thing is my server I hope is secure and I hope he hasnt somehow tapped in on my home network.

Can anyone confirm that duplication of an IP address is impossible from over the web? I mean Ive allowed one IP into my network but only that IP on certian ports which is a laptop computer which I have access to when Im away from home.

[Jay6390]

Wether duplication of an IP is possible or not, the sheer chance of someone guessing/stealing your ip, and going to all that trouble to access your home web server is, well, astronomically low really still, every now an then, it might. Sounds like you have some sort of malware that's opened up a new page, or just changed the current one in ypur browser

[JeremyTM]

Sounds to me like it's somwhere in a script your running on your server. Check the index file like Jay said for any re directions or links. Good luck!

[DAL]

Nothing can be traced back to this eric.eberhardt.us. If somehow http://rootadmin (intranet) finds the global DNS and points me to his IP. I know theres nothing in my scripts for that just as I know theres nothing in my scripts pointing to hehe.chuckyegg.nl/remember_that/on_the/Spectrum because I use niether and have never heard of the domain before.

Heres the latest;

One computer on my network cant use http://RootAdmin/ to access the local intranet server as it resolves constantly as this http://eric.eberhardt.us/ domain. My computer which was having intermitent problems of chosing to look localy for http://RootAdmin and only sometimes finding http://eric.eberhardt.us has completely stopped doing this and I can successfully use http://RootAdmin/ as my server root for the intranet.

This is so strange and Im questioning the integrity of my network but any clue would help me find a solution.

Thanks

[Jay6390]

Check the following file using notepad
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
If there is a line in there that has RootAdmin and doesnt have 127.0.0.1 then that is the problem

Also you can put
127.0.0.1 rootadmin #Comment here if wanted
127.0.0.1 eric.eberthardt.us #stop this site
which should force your resolution to 127.0.0.1 and force the http://eric.eberhardt.us/ to go to your localhost too


If that doesnt work, I'm all outta idea's sorry DAL
Jay

[DAL]

Thanks Jay6390

Problem is now solved with your help.

I only had the line 127.0.0.1 Localhost in the host file on all computers so I added the lines;

127.0.0.1 rootadmin
127.0.0.1 x.eric.eberthardt.us

(I assumed that you missed the x. for stopping!?)

Problem sorted...stange how it was doing it though.

Anyway Thanks again.
Dal.