222.mydomain.com... I'm stumped....

[peterdbaron]

Hi,

I'm stumped by this one and am hoping I can get some advice/guidance.  I've seen this pop up in my stats where the www.mydomain.com/page is appearing as 222.mydomain.com/page.

I have no clue what's going on...

This google return displays the same page 2 ways (see first image).

And when I click on the 222. link I get a prompt (see 2nd image).

Any idea what's going on?

Thanks!

Peter

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[peterdbaron]

Ah, I'm happy to report a resolution to the issue... so it turns out that it came down to the fact that the dns wildcard setting was turned on. Disabling it resolved the mystery.

Thanks for your help!

Peter

[peterdbaron]

Ryan,

I just noted the IP # as well and pinged my hosting company to see if something odd occurred on their end.

I'll check the htacess file next.

Thanks for the terrific advice. I really appreciate your help!

[RyanKent]

Well, let me put on my detective hat. Here is what we know:

• the page exists. I can navigate to 222.admissionsquest.com.

• the page has the same IP address as your www. page, so the are hosted on the same web server.

• the pages appear to be identical. I didn't do a 100% analysis here, but the pages appear to be the same, and they both have exactly 356 links on them.

The next step is checking your htaccess file and looking for any reference to this site. I would also such doing a search on your web server for "222".

[peterdbaron]

Ryan, thanks for the tip. I checked and couldn't find a "222" folder in the root directory. Any other ideas?

[RyanKent]

Check your web server. It looks like you have a "222" folder located in your root directory. That would cause exactly this behavior. This would be the most likely cause.