Getting the IP address of the server

[k_shehadeh]

What's the preferred way of getting the IP address of a server via the API and only when connecting via port 2082/83 (not WHM)?

[chirpy]

Which IP address are you after? The servers main IP address or the IP address of the site you're running the script under? Could you use the apache SERVER_ADDR environment variable?

[k_shehadeh]

Actually, I'm accessing the API remotely via Javascript. The IP address that I'm trying to get is the IP address of the server on which Cpanel is running.

[cPanelMatt]

This can be done via the API2 function StatsBar::stats

it needs to be called like the following:

https://DOMAIN:2083/xml-api/cpanel?u...panelaction%3E

or in something that's actually readable..

<cpanelaction>
  <module>StatsBar</module>
  <func>stat</func>
  <apiversion>2</apiversion>
  <args>
     <display>sharedip</display>
  </args>
</cpanelaction>

[k_shehadeh]

Thanks, Matt! That worked. I was using "dedicatedip" and on some servers it wasn't returning an ip address.

[krish_ven]

function countryCityFromIP($ipAddr)
{
//function to find country and city from IP address
//Developed by Roshan Bhattarai Roshan Bhattarai's Blog - A blog about PHP, Ajax, JavaScript, CSS, Web 2.0 and Web Development

//verify the IP address for the
ip2long($ipAddr)== -1 || ip2long($ipAddr) === false ? trigger_error("Invalid IP", E_USER_ERROR) : "";
$ipDetail=array(); //initialize a blank array

//get the XML result from hostip.info
$xml = file_get_contents("http://api.hostip.info/?ip=".$ipAddr);

//get the city name inside the node <gml:name> and </gml:name>
preg_match("@<Hostip>(\s)*<gml:name>(.*?)</gml:name>@si",$xml,$match);

//assing the city name to the array
$ipDetail['city']=$match[2];

//get the country name inside the node <countryName> and </countryName>
preg_match("@<countryName>(.*?)</countryName>@si",$xml,$matches);

//assign the country name to the $ipDetail array
$ipDetail['country']=$matches[1];

//get the country name inside the node <countryName> and </countryName>
preg_match("@<countryAbbrev>(.*?)</countryAbbrev>@si",$xml,$cc_match);
$ipDetail['country_code']=$cc_match[1]; //assing the country code to array

//return the array containing city, country and country code
return $ipDetail;

}
you can chk with this php code & you can get the DNS server ip address by giving domain name & get the ip address from ip-details.com