Posted by Mark on 07/10/05 05:44

Dan Blather wrote:
> thanks for the replies. i tried Adrienne's solution (had to rename the
> extension ".php") ... and all I got was my domain name, but nothing to
> uniquely ID the server (same domain is hosted on 2 servers).
>
> Tried Mark's alternative and only got "IP:" in white, same when I used the
> ".php" extension.
>
> Phil
>
>
> "Mark" <mark@manngo.net.example.net> wrote in message
> news:QDPze.23560$Le2.154545@nasal.pacific.net.au...
>
>>Adrienne wrote:
>>
>>>Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Dan Blather" <gimme@shelter.com>
>>>writing in news:5_Eze.124645$tt5.96061@edtnps90:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>i'm useing 2 servers to host my site, one is a "backup" in case the
>>>>other fails, or to handle overflow bandwidth.
>>>>I want to create a little ID tag to implant at the bottom of my home
>>>>page to let me know which server I am logging in to with my browser.
>>>>
>>>>i thought that using php or javascript i could create a simple little
>>>>"document.write" statment, ID'ing the server that I could call from the
>>>>bottom of the web-page, either with a simple <script src ...>
>>>>javascript tag. I tried it with Javascript, but I got a bizarre
>>>>message "code corrupted. Insert fresh copy" written into the bottom of
>>>>the web page (which I have NEVER gotten using Javascript before,
>>>>usually the browser debugger does the reporting!)
>>>
>>>
>>>You actually want server side, not client side, and you want to look at
>>>the server collection, specifically SERVER_NAME.
>>>
>>><?php echo $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] ?>
>>>
>>Alternatively, you might add the following SSI statment:
>>
>><p style="color: white;">IP: <!--#echo var="SERVER_ADDR" --></p>
>>
>>This will echo the IP address of the server. I have placed it inside a
>>white paragraph to sort of hide it (but not very well: you can still
>>select it and see what it says).
>>
>>SSI is not necessarily enabled on your server, and usually, though not
>>always, requires you to change your page's extension from .html to .shtml
>>to signal to the server that it may need to do something with the page.
>>
>>Mark
>
>
>
Try this

SSI Solution:

Make sure that SSI is enabled on your server.
Name your file something.shtml
<p>IP: <!--#echo var="SERVER_ADDR" --></p>

PHP Solution:

Name your file something.php
<?php
$ip = gethostbyname ($SERVER_NAME);
?>
...
<p>IP: <?php print "$ip"; ?></p>

If that still doesn't work, what server/platform are you running? Is it
configured to do the above, or at least, can you configure it?

Mark

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