All – I have designed a web application on CakePHP and hosting on a personal machine. I bought a static IP and through the static IP, we are able to access the site on the internet. Now, I bought a domain for my web application and forwarding the request from the domain to the static IP. When we type the domain name, it is taking us to the web application, but the problem is, whenever I hover the mouse on any link, I see the static IP in the status bar of the browser, instead of the domain name.
Please help me to get the problem resolved.
Appreciate your response on this.
If you can find the DNS Manager (click launch on the domain manager page), you will see that the first heading is “A – Host”, and under the column “Host” you will see an @ . Click the pencil to edit the “Points to” column for the @ and set this value to your ip address.
If you see an a record called www, then make this point to @ .
It should take about an hour to 24 hours to fix itself afterwards. You can use the ping tool as Mark suggested.