The Way Of Life: May 2023

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

How to Find the Web Server of Any Website

Today, I will show you 3 ways to find web server type from any website. So, what is it used for? Well, sometimes we want to know about the technologies behind them. As a computer geeks or whatever we want to know what technologies they used. Is it Apache or nginx? Well without further ado, let’s do this.

1. Using a random path. Did you ever have an experience? When you type the wrong addresses or path after the URL name from a website. It returns a 404 error and shows the webserver type on the screen browsee. So, with this pattern of errors, we can using this for achieve our goal, see the web server type.

www.websitename.com/sdsaddfsfortypeanything

But this kind of tricks, won’t work on a website that has a redirect 404 error setting. So when you type the wrong address or path it always redirects to the same page. For example, Google, when we type:www.google.com/sdhkjshk

It returns an error message like below.

2. Using the curl command. Type curl -I www.websitename.com and press Enter. On Windows you must install curl first, you can see here. But you can use a free online Linux terminal on https://bellard.org/

Free Linux Terminal with JSLinux.

Here you can use the curl command without installing anything on your machine.

curl command

3. Using Browser Development tools. On Google Chrome, we are using Inspect Element menu, On Microsoft Edge, you can use Developer Tools ( Crlt + Shift + I ). On Both Browser, you can right-click on the screen, and click pop up menu Inspect.

With Chrome, you can choose Network then refresh the web page with F5 or refresh button. Then choose the list component on Name Windows on the left. And see Headers information, here you can scroll down and find the Server Information, like the image below.
With Edge, it is totally the same as Chrome. Why? Because they are built on the same framework that is Chromium.