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Old 05-16-2007, 06:12 PM   #4
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Default Re: Shared IP hosting question

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Originally Posted by sneskid
Thank you!
It worked, and I knew it was something easy like that.

Can you elaborate on why bypassing can be problematic?
Mostly because it relies on a few server settings that aren't under your control.

For instance, WHM can be told to disallow access like http://ipaddress/~username

Also, even though WHM's default username for new accounts is the first 8 characters of the domain name, that can be changed so that user joe owns something.com. Therefore, the ~ part of the URL would be http://ipaddress/~joe and not http://ipaddress/~somethin

This also assumes WHM. Other control panels may have different ways of putting this URL together or disallow it altogether.

Glad it worked, though.
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