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Okay. On my own computer I can't reach my own home page when I type in my www url. I just get the 'Index of /' page as the index was two days ago. On anybody else's computer typing in my www.mydomain.com takes you to my home page but for some obscure reason my computer has gotten totally stuck on my own site's 'Index of /' page as it was two days ago. I've emptied my cache, history, etc and nothing. But what makes it even more weird is that all my browsers do it. It's not just like an IE thing and it's got that page stuck in its cache; ALL my browsers are doing it and they've all been cleared a hundred times! It's like some weird thing that's happened on my computer. And it isn't even my current 'Index of /' page that I'm getting because I've temporarily unloaded all my pages from my server, it's my 'Index of /' page as of two days ago appearing even though my caches have been cleared and I'm typing in the url live!
It's absolutely nuts. My server says there's nothing wrong with my site and it opens fine from their computers when they type in www.mydomain.com but for some weird reason my own computer has gotten some weird wire crossed regarding itself and my site. It's nothing to do with the presence of my site files on the local disk, I'm sure (I tried deleting them anyway to be sure), but some weird thing. It can't just be a co-incidence that it's my site. Some crazy thing has happened and I just can't figure it out. If I type in my base [mydomain.com...] url it opens okay and if I type in a page in my www url like www.mydomain.com/some_page.html it opens but if I type in www.mydomain.com live and with no cache and from my about:blank page instead of getting my home page I get 'Index of /' as it was two days ago like it's somehow fused itself onto my computer's brain or something! It's like what that Samarra chick could do in 'The Ring' only more irritating and with no flies or ladders.
I've run Spybot and AVG and all but I'm sure it's not a virus. Anyone got any ideas? Anyone had this before? It's driving me nuts. Help.
Thanks,
Rischen
if Tedsters advice doesn't do the trick (should do if it is an ISP issue),
try a tracert from the command prompt (START, RUN, type CMD and press enter)
after opening the command prompt window type in:
tracert www.yourdomain.com
see what IP it gives you (check with your server's ip)
possible you have an entry for your domain in your HOSTS file you forgot about?
you will find the hosts file in
Windows 95/98/Me c:\windows\hosts
Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
(although you would know that if you edited it in the first place ;O)
also try typing in the IP of your site (from tracert) into your browser instead of the domain name.
hope this helps
dazz
<edit>clarity</edit>
Thanks a lot for your time.
I think it's probably an ISP issue. I phoned them up today (thanks Tedster, it hadn't even occured to me) and asked them how long they cache and all. After much humming and hawing from them I asked them to type in my www subdomain and the exact same thing happened on their computers meaning it's cached itself there. A few moments later as I was talking with them I absently typed in my www subdomain again and suddenly I got my 'Index of /' as it was like last nightish (empty cos I was trying out different stuff). So, it sort of looks like that for some scary, unserendipitous reason my site of all sites refreshes very slowly on my ISP of all ISP's. In another two days it might show me my actual home page when I type it in :)
Dazz, I tried the tracert tip but for some reason the dosprog just crashes on my computer. Really appreciate your time and your thoughts though.
g1smd, thank you for the 411 on the 301. I will follow it up.
Rischen
Instead of typing tracert into the run box, type cmd. Then run tracert in the window that pops up.
