The World of Grandpa Don
8/3/01
The Page Cannot be Displayed
Some of my friends have said that they can not visit my web site or others. They get the "The Page Cannot Be Displayed..." error message. I recently became aware of a possible solution, but a little history first.
Before the World Wide Web (www) it was necessary to know a four number address such as 123.45.67.89 to get to a web page. This system is still used, however, web servers now convert the familiar URL addresses like www.stjulie.org to its numerical address for you. The numerical address may change but the servers keep tract of that.
Even though you no longer need to use the numerical address, programmers tend to add to operating systems and do not delete things. As a result, your computer may contain an unnecessary file called "host" and, that file may contain obsolete addresses for the page that you are trying to view.
to see if this is the problem follow this procedure:
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Open SEARCH or FIND on your PC.
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Select FILES OR FOLDERS
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Search for "host" (no extension)
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If it is there it may look like the example of host file( below.)
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If you find it, right click on the name "host"
(There may be other file names containing "host". Ignore them.) -
Select RENAME
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Rename it host.bak
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Close SEARCH (or FIND)
This
may solve the problem.
You may try accessing the page by omitting the www in the address. If
successful, this is an indication that the host file may be the
problem.
Example
of "host" file.
This is actually the host.sam file from my PC opened using
Notepad. It is a sample file. In the actual host file, the only
line that should be shown without "#" is the last line as in
this one.
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# Copyright (c) 1998
Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP stack for
Windows98
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 localhost
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