whats the IP of my webserver?

[Lex]

I'm at work and i need to know the IP address of our webserver.

How can i do this? I know the url but i would like to know the IP of that url.

 

[Lex]

Surely you can just ping <url> to get the IP?

/edit beaten

the guy told me the incorrect url basically. Thats why it didnt work. Is there a way however to search for the webserver of your network if you dont know the url and u dont know the ip? I guess you can assign the webserver with any kind of ip or url even? You'd either need to know one or the other right?

 

[Lex]

Obviously you need to read up on all this a little. ANY machine on ANY network has an IP as well as a URL. The network administrator will know what these are.

dude i know that! I'm just curious to know if there is ANOTHER way to find out. ...."obviously".

lol please dont say 'ask the network administrator.' hehe

 

[Lex]

sorry, i didn't mean to be rude. There's just soo much to explain about all that, i didn't really know what else to put.

Basically any machine on a network has an IP address - either assigned manually by the network admin, or dynamically by the server or router they are attached to. This goes for internal networks or internet connected machines.

If you have registered a "domain name" and have the company set it up properly so that it points to the ip of your webserver, you can access it's web services by typing in the url. Otherwise, you'll have to type in it's IP.

You can get the IP in several ways. Easiest i find is to type "ipconfig" in a command prompt on your webserver.

hope this helps.

i didnt mean to jump at you:| I'm aware of it all i was just curious thats all buddy.

zen62619 errr it clearly IS my company webserver and i was asking on behalf of my database programmer. We have a number of servers but i was wondering if he gave me the correct url because when i ping'd[url address] it didnt ping. So i was curious to know if there was any other way. we've found it now he made a mistake with the url and now its pinging. Also found the IP of the webserver through ping.

Despite no one has given me the answer which i kinda expect as "NO, there is no way to find a webserver on a LAN unless you know the URL of the webserver." Or maybe you could search for all the devices on the network and hope that the NAME of the device comes up webserver or something. Maybe even the port number could be a key to locating the webserver. I dunno anyway its okay now.

sorry for the hassle everyone.

 

[Lex]

it's 127.0.0.1 a.k.a. localhost

That would be the virtual webserver of my 'local' machine. not the webserver on the network that hosts our site address. correct me if im mistaken.

 

[Lex]

Yeah for advanced users maybe. Ping and IPConfig work fine, providing you know the machine name and you have access to the webserver.

ipconfig/all displays all the content of nslookup and much more. its the way forward surely

anywa i think this post is prolonged.

 

[Lex]

lol at some of these answers.

if he did not know the ip address of the server nor the url and came here asking for it then i'm going to assume that hes not going to be allowed to go up to the server itself and start typing in commands on CMD.

if someone came into my IT room and started up CMD saying i want the ip address i would have to kick them out the room.

i know you found the url and ip address but as the servers are clearly not maintained by you then the only way to find out is to ask the system administrator.

end of...

(is a bit of a harsh response but most users i know cant even tell when the num lock key isnt on, so if they started touching the servers i'll get a bit protective.)

Yes! i agree! I am a network administrator myself which is why some of those answers were a bit frustrating to say the least. Where i'm working at the moment however i'm not in control of the network (at the moment)