Inaccessible website

[NewSilkTurtle]

I manage numerous websites of all kinds and lately I cannot access one of them from my PC. I can access it from another PC in my house on the same internet connection, but not from my own. We have almost identical setups - Windows XP, similar programs and options enabled.

I try to access the site with both Internet Explorer and Firefox. No matter which browser I use, I see the following:

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Under Construction

The site you are trying to view does not currently have a default page. It
may be in the process of being upgraded and configured.

Please try this site again later. If you still experience the problem, try
contacting the Web site administrator.

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If you are the Web site administrator and feel you have received this
message in error, please see "Enabling and Disabling Dynamic Content" in IIS
Help.

To access IIS Help
a.. Click Start, and then click Run.
b.. In the Open text box, type inetmgr. IIS Manager appears.
c.. From the Help menu, click Help Topics.
d.. Click Internet Information Services.

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I made the entire site and can see it on the other computer, including the index.html. The site has a user forum with over 1k members and tens of thousands of posts. I just finished moving the whole site to a new server, including the forum. Everything is there, but I can't see any of it on my own PC.I've tried clearing caches and temporary internet files, clearing cookies, browser history, shutting down and restarting browsers, shutting down and restarting the computer, etc. etc. etc. Nothing works, nothing changes.

It was especially irritating today cuz I had to update the site which involved running back and forth from the other computer to mine.

On a hunch, I searched the registry on my machine for the domain that I cannot access. I found a bunch of entries pertaining to some email accounts but those are not relevant so I kept searching and found
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENT VERSION/
INTERNET SETTINGS/ZONEMAP/DOMAINS with a value of four. It's connected with Spybot Search&Destroy and there was a lengthy list of "unsafe" domains and porn sites. The one I manage was included in this list. Well my domain is in no way pornographic or unsafe, so I have no idea why it was in the list.

I deleted the site from the domains list under the above key, restarted the computer and tried again to access the site. No dice.... I uninstalled Spybot and restarted the computer again. The above registry key was still present and all the sites still there except for the one I deleted. But I still couldn't access the site! I searched the registry again and found nothing else that ought not to have been there.

Any ideas??

 

[jackschmittusa]

Typing a URL or using a bookmark?

 

[GaryJohnson]

Where is the site hosted and where was it hosted? Were you running it on the machine that now can't access it?

Open command prompts on the computer that can and the one that can't connect and do a "nslookup google.com" (replace google.com with your site name) to get the IP of the site. Do you get the same IP on both machines? If you type the IP the machine that connects gives you for the site into the browser on the one that can't connect, can you then get to the site?

 

[Pantlegz]

does the pc that isn't working running a web server? IIS in specific, if so it looks like your pc is pulling the website from itself(as that is the default IIS index.html). is it possible the dns is screwy for that machine? what OS(s) are you using?

 

[rasczak]

check the ip address settings in IIS to ensure that the website is set to the correct ip. also did you change the ip address of the website during the move accidentally?

 

[earthman]

Spybot may have blocked it in your hosts file.