Can someone please...

[Samdy Gray]

Can't be done Batch.

In name-based virtual hosting, also called shared IP hosting, the virtual hosts serve multiple hostnames on a single machine with a single IP address.

When a web browser requests a resource from a web server using HTTP/1.1 it includes the requested hostname as part of the request. The server uses this information to determine which web site to show the user.

If you had the full server path to the forum index page like http://78.129.192/thetownend/htdocs/forum/index.php then that would probably work.

[Barry Scott]

You should be able to access it as http://78.129.179.192/~thetowne/

Which is actually what i should of thought of when Sam asked earlier!

[Batch]

That seems to work.

I assume that is because it has it's own IP address and therefore no domain name resolution is required for further redirects.

Incidentally, going back to trace route, I though that just resolved which hops were taken to reach the destination. none more useful than ping in resolving cases like this.

[Barry Scott]

You're right, it was my mistake from earlier, because i had a dispute with the hosts when it appeared the ips they'd given me were US based. This was the dns though (I think) and to set my mind at rest they said to traceroute them. When i tracerouted them it showed as a UK IP after about 10 hops, which was my issue. Or something. I fail to remember exactly.