Topic: showin ip instead domain name

[chillipepper]

Hi there,am not sure if its a problem with apache.so here my problem
when anyone goes to my site though domain name it shows up the ip address.
like this www.name.com and it shows www.12.112.12 etc i have put my name in the header in apache confd file
any ideas anyone.

[glsmith]

EDIT:
I think I'm full of it here. I didn't see the www. before the IP address when I wrote this, still not sure. Never seen anything like that in 10 years. I may partially be on, maybe not. New territory here. I think I'd still start out looking at just how you get www.name.com pointing to your server.
END EDIT:

Sounds like an uncloaked URL Forward/Web Forward etc etc by many different names.

Like: http://www.name.com -> http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (IP)

If your ServerName is configured in Apache like www.name.com, and you have a proper DNS record (A or CNAME) for www.name.com then it should show the domain name.

In reality, the main host in Apache will answer to any domain name pointing to your IP regardless of the ServerName, that comes in more when using Virtual Hosts, however, even using VHosts the your main host configured will still answer to any name not configured by a vhost.

[James Blond]

What did you set for ServerName and UseCanonicalName?

[chillipepper]

Thanks guys but its all sorted now.the site which was nameserverin to my ip had it masked.even if i undo the masked i still was gettin probs,so i change to someone else and now all sorted.