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[lastrohm]

Out of the blue, I haven't been able to open a website that I visit almost every day. For the first few days, I thought that the sites server was down, but I can open it from work, and I asked several people to try it from their computers. Everyone was able to open it. I haven't changed any settings on my computer. This is the only site that I'm having problems with. The kicker is that the website is for our church, and I'm the one who put it together! I've tried from my favorites, typing in url address and etc. No luck. Any ides? I cleared history, scanned for virus, emptied temp. internet files etc. My computer is runnig fine and I have no problems with other sites I visit.

[mairving]

lastrohm, hopefully it is not a sign from God. It is more likely a result of something in your hosts file. Read this post. It should give you the answer you are looking for.

[lastrohm]

mairving, I used Front Page 2000 to build the website for the church on one of the church computers. I do all the updates at the church. My computer at home is the one that can't acess the website. The seven computers at church have no trouble and anyone else I've asked to check it out haven't had any trouble. Just my home computer. Here is the url and please don't laugh. I had no lessons and have very little computer experience. Have to read a book for everything I do! www.gbgm-umc.org/fumcbrookville

[mairving]

I will certainly not laugh at you. It has nothing to do with the site that you built. Here is probably what has happens. Windows has a file on it called hosts. This file overrides your DNS server. All sites on the internet have numeric IP addresses like 216.100.100.1. Numeric IP addresses are difficult to remember. So basically when you type in an address like http://www.gbgm-umc.org/fumcbrookville in your browser, it uses a DNS server to tell it where to go. Unless there is an entry in your hosts file that is different. Here is how to fix:

• Search for a files on your computer called hosts.
  
• Open this file with notepad. Since this file has no extension, it can't be opened by double-clicking it. You have to open notepad, set it to open all files and open this file.
  
• Any line that has http://www.gbgm-umc.org/fumcbrookville in it should be edited. Put a # in front of the line to de-activate that line. Save it and you should be able to access the site.
  

Let me know if this doesn't work.

[lastrohm]

mairving, Thank you for the information. I searched for the hosts files and found five. Opened each one up and didn't see any line that had the website address in it. So closed out of it and guess what? Now I can get on and open the site. I didn't do anything that I'm aware of. At any rate I can now check the site from home. Thank you again.

Linda

The files probably had to recompile or something. As with many programs, sometimes junk gets stuck in the registry and won't refresh until you open the file.

[Statica]

That sounds like an @home tech support/M$ tech support/AOL service call - like advice.
Explain what files need to recompile? Or what is it that remains in the registry??

Originally posted by MITotaku The files probably had to recompile or something. As with many programs, sometimes junk gets stuck in the registry and won't refresh until you open the file.

Recompile was a bad word to use, but I was thinking in programming terms.

Let me use an example. When working on a VB program at school I couldn't get it to run. I checked for syntax errors, but none existed. I had to open the file in another computer and then save it, then recompile it on my computer for it to work.

As for the registry.... i meant to say registers.

He said he didn't change the file, so it's similar to the problem I had.

What do you think it was Statica...? maybe you have a better way of stating what I'm trying to say

[mairving]

MITotaku, why even comment at all? To increase your post count maybe. Remember that it is quality and not quantity.

All I said was "probably". If you guys know a better answer then post it. I'm not doing these for posts, I don't even care about my post count. I was just seeing if others would agree with what I said. Obviously you guys don't. So what do you think it is?