Joomla content not displaying on other computers

Question

I've build a Joomla website and it has been online for like 2 years now, always worked fine.

Recently I added a Google maps plugin and changed some header images.

Strange thing is, those changes are only displaying on my own laptop. The problem is not that I'm by accident viewing a local website, I'm 100% visiting the website online. I just opened the website on chrome with www.mywebsite.com and it displays all changes made in the backend. When I log out and back in again to the backend trough /administrator I can see the changes.

Now when I open the website on another computer (tried like three different ones), the changes are not displaying. Even when I log in to the backend through /administrator, still online on the same network, I am not seeing the changes made on my laptop and vice versa.

Frontend sometimes can have problems with caching, but the cache is disabled so this can't be the problem. And even if so, why would the backend display other data on 2 different computers..?

Also I've already tried removing the browser cache on those other computers.

Has anyone experienced this problem? I'm guessing it might be a problem on the side of my hosting company..

Answer 1

It had to do with a rule in the hosts-file on my laptop which directed to an old location/ip-adress of the website which has been moved to another server.