JP Stones — Tue, 13 Jul 1999 03:06:00 +0000

<can we agree we are all right and suzanna just has to ask her host to change this?>
he he, that's what I said ages ago
JP

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Tue, 13 Jul 1999 02:49:00 +0000

ok, for now we have three definitions about that.
technical, simple and general.
can we agree we are all right and suzanna just has to ask her host to change this?
later
patrick

anti — Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:21:00 +0000

Hey u2 (Pat and Polpus),

just to correct you (both).

The com is the top level domain.
The webmaster-forums is the domain.
And the www is the host.

However with modern nameservers it is possible to have the domain have an additional A-record so it is recognized as a host too.

ciao
Anti

TradeViceroy — Mon, 12 Jul 1999 04:03:00 +0000

lol.

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Chase Y.
Radius Design

Sat, 10 Jul 1999 03:33:00 +0000

thanks for expressing this so clearly, IOU
patrick

Sat, 10 Jul 1999 01:18:00 +0000

Pat, may I correct you?

com = Top Level Domain (a.k.a TLD)
webmaster-forums = Second level domain
www = Third level domain (a.k.a SubDomain)

The www is nothing but a simple subdomain like in http://mp3.lycos.com.

Suzanna, Ask your host to add the vhost suzanna.net to their Apache configuration files.

Cheers,
Polpus

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JP Stones — Fri, 09 Jul 1999 20:18:00 +0000

Ask your host to set it up so this is possible, www.what-next.com works, as does what-next.com .
They should be able to fix this or at least invent a good excuse as to why it is not possible
JP

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Fri, 09 Jul 1999 19:28:00 +0000

may i share my little knowledge about this with you???
a URL is generally split up in three parts:
www.webmaster-forums.com e.g.:
com = general net name, defines the name-server telling your computer the IP-adress(number-code) of your server
webmaster-forums = the name given to the server
www = directory on the server!

the www-directory is not the only one on your server, there are several, e.g. ftp, www, user1, user2 and so on.
so when you type suzanna.net, your computer finds the server-machine, but doesn't know the directory to access.

ok, i think i made any possible mistake in explaining this, could somebody please correct my mistakes ?
cu
patrick