cds — Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:29:00 +0000

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

Dan

Rob Pengelly — Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:03:00 +0000

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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new2this — Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:36:00 +0000

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.

Suzanne — Sun, 19 Mar 2000 23:46:00 +0000

The second one isn't a real link, so I assumed it was supposed to be http://frontpage.microsoft.com, which is of course, not a real link, either.

Which one did you mean? Fairhousing is dead-on about the domain stuff.

Suzanne

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fairhousing — Sun, 19 Mar 2000 05:35:00 +0000

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 — Sun, 19 Mar 2000 05:19:00 +0000

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'.

Suzanne

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