Question for a PHP Programer

[pick]

I own a website recently developed by a freelance programer, however, I cannot pull up my site from my computer even though I have confirmed that the site is up with my host (and friends) and I can access every other site on the web? I pinged the site and it is reaching my host no problem but I keep getting page cannot be found. How is this possible?
Is it possible my PHP programmer to blocked my IP until final payment is received (which is in the mail as of yesterday)? Can that be done?

[moheybee]

Sure...

If ($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] == YOUR_IP_ADDRESS) {
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
}

[pick]

Thanks for the info.

[bcolflesh]

[the-cloak.com...]

[pick]

Wow, thanks, The-Cloak worked, I guess that confirms it is something in the programming. Thanks again.

[ergophobe]

No, it doesn't confirm anything. Don't accuse your programmer of anything like that until you have all the facts.

I'm guessing that the script is fine because:

1. He probably does not know your IP

2. Your IP may well be dynamic anyway (though it would always be from the same block).

3. I have had the same thing happen with several sites. I could not see overture.com for over a month and I've had days when WebmasterWorld just wouldn't come up. The problem was almost certainly related to something at my ISP, not because overture was down for three months or blocking little old me!

4. If I were going to block a site until the client paid, I would make the site visible to the client and nobody else, not the other way around. That's the worst possible way to try to get paid:

"Your site exists. The whole world and all your friends can see it, but you can't see it until you pay up."

Compare that to:

"Here's your site. Play with it all you want. Until I receive final payment, however, it is only visible from select IPs. Once you pay, I will make it visible to the world at large."

BTW, I had a someone do the opposite to me. I put a demo script on a domain I have. She claimed she couldn't see it. I could. I pinged my site from all over the world with various ping services. I could connect from the US, Singapore, France, all over except from a few ping/traceroute utilities based in England.

So I relented and zipped up the script and sent it over. Said person disappeared and has not been heard from since.

[Gruessle]

I can't see some sites including one of my sites. Also have problems with some banners.
I tracked the problem down to my own computer. I have Bigapache installed and if I uninstall it everything works fine.
My browser somehow looks for some links on my own computer and can't find it, even know the link does not read localhost it reads the right/correct website address My browser gets linked to the localhost.

Some bug in Bigapache.

So this could be anything as far as I am concerned. If everybody / all your friends can see the site only you can't I would look on your end.