Full url path of website on shared server

Question

my ISP is not currently resolving DNS. But I can access most websites via IP addresses, Is there a way I can access my own website on a shared server via IP? It wasn't given to me.

Like 32.36.221.54/~blablacom/ How can I get this without asking them for it?

Answer 1

sure you can:

telnet <ip of your provider> 80
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: <name of your vhost>

That's it. It should spit out the text.

Of course an easiyer way would be to just enter the ip and hostname in your /etc/hosts file and browse to it. But that would be boring wouldn't it?

Answer 2

my ISP is not currently resolving DNS.

Did you try with Google's DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4?

Is there a way I can access my own website on a shared server via IP?

It looks like you can't, because there may have multiple domains map to one IP address.

Answer 3

Look up the IP address with this web tool (DNS lookup). It's very likely that you can't access your site with the IP address you got from there, though. The reason is that a web server can handle many domains from the same IP address and differentiates them by the domain name used in the http query.