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| Thread ID: 91824 | 2008-07-20 05:15:00 | Some URLs formatted differently... | johcar (6283) | PC World Chat |
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| 690401 | 2008-07-20 05:15:00 | What's the significance of some websites having no 'www' in front of the domain name? This one is a sort-of example, although I understand that the forum is a sub-domain, but stuff.co.nz is another example... Hoping someone with a few more clues than I can explain the difference and why a webmaster would choose NOT to have the 'www' as part of the address... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 690402 | 2008-07-20 05:31:00 | On most websites it does not matter if you use www or not (although some web servers don’t accept none www as the system admin has not set-up the web server to support none www) | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 690403 | 2008-07-20 06:38:00 | I'm sure we had a post like this before. I got proved wrong. | plod (107) | ||
| 690404 | 2008-07-20 07:02:00 | I'm sure we had a post like this before. I got proved wrong. So you felt things were normal? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 690405 | 2008-07-20 07:50:00 | In general, when printed, the www makes clear that someone is reading a website address (remember not everyone is that familiar with the internet and a lot of people even think www is required). However, a web server can be configured in all sorts of ways to do different things. For example www.example.com and example.com can serve two totally different websites respectively (not very good) or provide the exact same website (expected but not the most ideal situation). Another situation could be that one works while the other doesn't (worst configuration). Best practice would be redirecting any requests for www.example.com to example.com (or vice versa), so that www.example.com/contact/ would resolve to example.com/contact/. For a wee bit more background, www could be considered a sub-domain. Sub-domains nowadays are used a lot for low-level separation of website sections. For example I own the domain ableapp.com, with stash.ableapp.com being a personal file dump and the primary function of the domain, so both ableapp.com and www.ableapp.com redirect there. However, I've set up a few of minor sub-domains (watch (watch.ableapp.com/), snapr (http:) and lynx (http://lynx.ableapp.com/)) each serving different "websites". |
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