Big problem, please help

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Hey guys,

I have a site that has done something weird..

the site now appears like this in the google URL:
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]166.146.20.222/myurl.com/page-name[/FONT]

Yesterday it was fine. If I do site:myurl.com nothing show up. If I do site: 166.146.20.222/myurl.com it comes up with the three pages that is on the site.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]My questions:

How do I fix this? I was thinking of setting up redirects and then pinging the links. Is there a better solution?

What would cause this?

Has this destroyed the rankings on the site for good? (it was ranking well)


Thanks!
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Wow, thats weird. Thats the first time i saw something like that.
 
I know, my only guess is that my hosting company are idiots and let google see all my domains when you visit the IP. My guess is Google is trying to be more exact with the domain, it thinks a direct link to the files is more exact than the actual domain.

Anyone got any ideas on a solution?
 
I have not fixed the Google results, but I have fixed the URL problem, when someone clicks the url with the IP in it, it will redirect to the correct URL. Here is the .htaccess code for anyone who may have the problem in the future.
Code:
 Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on # # Redirect all requests for all non-canonical domains to same page in www.example.com RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} . RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I have pinged all URLs, so hopefully Google will catch on and fix this up.
 
It might be a .htaccess issue, take a look at .htaccess file (located in the root folder of your domain). It might be masking and/or redirecting the URL.
 
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