FP2000: How to Identify Your Web Server and IP address

ID: Q197623

The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft FrontPage 2000

SUMMARY

This article describes how to identify the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer and the type of Web server that you are using to display your Web pages.


MORE INFORMATION

Identifying the IP Address

Windows 95 or Windows 98:

To find out what your IP address is, follow these steps:
  1. On the Windows Start menu, click Run.


  2. In the Open box, type Winipcfg.exe and then click OK.


Your IP address appears in the IP Address box.

Windows NT:

You can determine the IP address by performing the following steps.
  1. On the Windows Start menu, point to programs, and then click Command Prompt.


  2. At the command prompt, type ipconfig.exe and press ENTER.


Your IP address appears in the third line.

NOTE: Regardless of which operating system your are using, if you use dynamic IP addressing and you are not currently connected to either your network or the Internet, you may not see an address in the IP Address box or it may be displayed as 0.0.0.0. In this case you can still access the TCP/IP networking functionality by referring to the default localhost by using either the Domain Name System (DNS) name of "localhost" (without the quotation marks) or the default IP Address (127.0.0.1).

Determining the Web Server

You can determine what Web server you are publishing your content on by following these steps:

NOTE: Before you follow this procedure, connect to the Internet and open your Web in FrontPage. You should have author permissions to the Web server.
  1. On the Tools menu, click Web Settings.


  2. Click the General tab. The following information is listed:


    • The IP Address or DNS name of the Web server.


    • The version of the FrontPage Server Extensions.


    • The type of Web server software running on the server.


    • The IP Address of the computer running the FrontPage client software.


    • The proxy server software (if any) being used to access the Internet.


NOTE: If you do not have access to the Web server and you need to determine what type of Web server software is running on the server, you can probe the server with software from the Netcraft site (http://www.netcraft.com). At this site, enter the host name or IP address to find out what Web server is running at that site.

Additional query words: 2000, TCP/IP, TCP, IP, ipconfig, winipcfg, address, server,

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Version : WINDOWS:
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto


Last Reviewed: January 7, 2000
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