Question about search engines.

[morningside]

My web site is forwarded to my home web server. Trouble is if I check the internet it has indexed it as:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and NOT www.whateveritscalled.co.uk

how do I change it so that is is indexed (i.e. shown) as WWW ?

Also, if it is forwarded will it be indexed properly anyway?

Edited by morningside on Friday 12th January 16:18

[morningside]

bump. Any ideas?

[oggs]

I'm sure JB or plotty will be along shortly... JB prob later

[Phil Hopkins]

Try setting the DNS tag www to your home IP. That should sort it?

[Plotloss]

Nice of Oggs to suggest I've got the answer but its a bit over my head to be honest.

How is the forwarding happening?

Is it a straightfoward forward, with a frame thats masking the actual address its being served from?

I guess its something to do with A records or whatever the HTTP equivalent of MX records is.

Beeston will know for sure, hes a mine of information on this sort of thing.

Personally I'd never host at home though, too many variables, hosting is cheap and its usually part of a bigger business so redundancy, power management etc are all taken care of for you.

[J_S_G]

Questions:
- Firstly, is your home server running off a static IP address or a dynamic one?
- Are you using one of those dynamic IP mappers?
- How is the domain name mapped to the IP address? (redirect, masked frame, proper A record?)

Or, alternatively, can we have a link to the site?