URL question
I am curious as to what is the difference between a URL like www.microsoft.com/frontpage and www.frontpage.microsoft.com ? I have seen different examples of each and have never understood the difference. Can someone explain this to me? I apologize for such a lame newbie question, but this is only the beginning (lol). Thank you for your help on this matter.
Suzanne posted this at 05:19 — 19th March 2000.
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The first would be a sub-folder of the domain Microsoft.com and the second would be a sub-domain. Sub-domains are generally indepedent (structurally and filewise) of the main domain, where as sub-folders are merely sections of the domain. Of course that is a vast generalization!
Some hosts do not allow sub-domains, those that offer reseller programs usually do. That means that as a reseller of the space (like a sub-lease of a home) you can give them a separate 'entrance' instead of giving them access to your whole 'house'.
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fairhousing posted this at 05:35 — 19th March 2000.
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actually, i don't think the 2nd one is a sub-domain because the www. is in it. all the sub-domains i know don't have the www. in front of them.
regular domain: http://www.whatever.com/here
sub-domain: http://here.whatever.com
u can get a domain name with a period in it also.
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Suzanne posted this at 23:46 — 19th March 2000.
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Which one did you mean? Fairhousing is dead-on about the domain stuff.
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new2this posted this at 19:36 — 20th March 2000.
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OK Thanks for the answers. I wasn't really sure about it. I see what you mean about the subdomains not having the www. Thank you both for the replies.
Rob Pengelly posted this at 20:03 — 20th March 2000.
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The second one would be a subdomain. I beleive you can add to the <VirtualHost> </VirtualHost> (contains the data for the subdomain) somthing like
ServerAlias *.sub.domain.com
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cds posted this at 23:29 — 20th March 2000.
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And just to throw a little more confusion in, using the example frontpage.microsoft.com Com is the top level domain, microsoft is actually a sub-domain of com and frontpage is a sub-domain of microsoft
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