How to Check an IP by Domain Name With PHP
- 1). Launch the plain text editor application on your system such as NotePad on the PC; Jedit, Gedit on Linux systems; and Komodo Edit, Smultron, BBEdit or TextMate on Mac OS X.
- 2). Type the following PHP code in the text editor:
<?php
$domain="www.churchfolknews.com";
$ipaddress= gethostbyname($domain);
echo ""."The IP address for ".$domain." is: ".$ipaddress;
?> - 3). Click on the File menu and select "Save." Name the file "getipaddress.php."
- 4). Click on the File menu and select "Quit" or "Exit" to close the text editor.
- 5). Launch the FTP application and log in to the web server.
- 6). Upload the file "getipaddress.php" to the root directory of the web server.
- 7). Click on the Disconnect button of the FTP application.
- 8). Launch a web browser and enter the appropriate URL to access the PHP file.
- 9). Press the enter key to load the URL and run the PHP file.
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